Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the performers who will be appearing in this year 's Spring Thing are 18-year-old Lynn Tocker , the Hokum Hotshots , Beggars Velvet and Whippersnapper . |
| 2 | Furthermore , food prices could sharply distinguish the standard of living in one year from both the preceding one and the next . |
| 3 | Or there 's the celebrated case of one of our members speaking in last year 's debate on the maternity leave directive . |
| 4 | Other teams competing in this year 's event include Saatchi & Saatchi , Barclays Bank , Prudential Corporation , British Airways , Abbey National , Mercury Communications , ICI and Nikki Securities . |
| 5 | A of teams will be competing in this year 's hockey tournament at Grosvenor Ladies ' Hockey Club , heralding the start of the new season . |
| 6 | BRAIN surgeon Fred Nath is competing in this year 's gruelling Yorkshire Moors Race in a bid to help two handicapped Romanian children . |
| 7 | Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] . |
| 8 | In the distance she could hear the rumble of a local farmer 's combine , busily gathering in this year 's corn harvest , while from an upstairs window floated the happy laughter of Emma and Sophie , mingling with the busy hum of bees in the nearby lime trees . |
| 9 | And Oxford , since bringing in 20 year old Ian Gardiner to stroke position just a few weeks ago , are now edging ahead as favourites . |
| 10 | Will all who have an advertisement or professional notice running in this year 's magazine please forward a remittance for unpaid invoices . |
| 11 | His final recommendation , therefore , was that evaluation should become a continuous process in which all faculties and departments should be involved ; that it should examine teaching and learning in all year groups ; but that it should perhaps be less wide-ranging and more focused than this first effort . |
| 12 | Peter Scudamore is on record as saying that Sabin du Loir is one of the best horses he has ever ridden , and could have gone a long way towards towards justifying that high opinion but for falling in last year 's King George at Kempton when holding a healthy lead . |
| 13 | Linford , who became an MBE in 1990 , considered quitting athletics after flopping in last year 's World Championships . |