Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trading conditions which we experienced during the year with no recovery in prospect required a radical look at the costs and overheads structure of the UK activities . |
| 2 | This compares with depreciation on the Dumfries building where production ceased during the year . |
| 3 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 4 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 5 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 6 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 7 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 9 | In conclusion I would like to thank everyone concerned ; tot he management and the golf courses we visited during the year and wish them every success in the coming season . |
| 10 | Fluctuations occurred throughout the year : the deficit in May was $10,200 million , an increase of 23.6 per cent over April due to an increase in imports of oil and industrial equipment and to the effect on exports of the rise in value of the dollar ; in July and September the deficits fell to a five-year low due to a decline in the purchase of foreign machinery and consumer goods , and to an increase in aircraft exports . |
| 11 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders announced on February 14th that the number of people who lost their homes last year because they could not keep up their mortgage payments nearly tripled from the year before . |
| 12 | In some of the other source studies discounting was quite appropriately not applied as all costs and benefits occurred within a year . |
| 13 | This tells us water temperatures were changing and we believe this represents a major almenial event which occurred in the year seventeen forty seven . |
| 14 | In the first edition of this book we described at length the reactions evoked by the Report , its strengths and weaknesses as we saw them , and the developments that occurred in the year or so following the publication of Circular 11/77 . |
| 15 | Only 11 firms , out of the 138 registered with the English Institute that the JMU visited in the year to 30 September 1992 , achieved ‘ yes ’ answers to all 13 questions . |
| 16 | Sales of Hennessy and Hine cognac have also suffered , particularly in Japan where consumption dropped during the year . |
| 17 | The final part of that of John Bartholomew and Son , the geographical publishers , came during the year and has been amalgamated with earlier gifts . |
| 18 | We relied heavily on subscriptions and donations and were delighted by the loyalty and support we received throughout the year . |
| 19 | Belgium 's wholesale prices were unchanged in January compared with a year ago . |
| 20 | First , looking at hardware spending plans this year , the review shows cutbacks in the UK , the US , France , Canada and Spain compared with the year before . |
| 21 | The holding of the summit in Madrid came in the year of official Spanish celebration of the 500th anniversary of Colombus 's voyage to America . |
| 22 | Its estimates are based on studies of climate conditions 65,000 years ago , when the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere was similar to that predicted for the year 2000 . |
| 23 | After she gave up competing to teach — you ca n't do both in Irish dancing — she joined Newcastle-based Clann na Gael ( Children of the Irish ) , a demonstration troupe with whom she danced until a year ago . |
| 24 | is it , is it he can answer that question , is it he 's job to look in what er , happened in a year 's time . |
| 25 | In short , the increase in earnings from tourism happened in the year after the millennium . |
| 26 | So that sort of situation we obtained in a year and a half without going to , going on a strike . |
| 27 | The first Rottweiler in Norway arrived in the year 1910 , but it was not until 1919 that a bitch called Florrie , who had been originally imported from Sweden , was registered . |
| 28 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 29 | After he served for a year as a deacon he was ordained as a priest . |
| 30 | Returning to Europe in 1915 , Smith served for a year as a military chaplain in France before joining the British and Foreign Bible Society , first as its secretary in Rome and then in other capacities , rising to be its editorial superintendent ( 1933–9 ) . |