Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 2 | We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution ! |
| 3 | Exchange gains and losses arising from trading transactions are taken to profit for the year . |
| 4 | It is perhaps hard for us to realize after the years of the inter-war depression that for sixty years before 1914 the Durham pit men and the shipyard workers of Tyne and Wear were among the most highly paid workers outside the USA … . |
| 5 | Total government indebtedness was expected to increase during the year from 97.5 per cent of GDP to 100.5 per cent . |
| 6 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 7 | That simple incident was enough to form the basis of the very real phobia from which Joyce was to suffer throughout the years which followed . |
| 8 | There 's plenty of space for you to jot down those important dates , and there are super recipes to try throughout the year . |
| 9 | In vase-painting the late work of the Pioneers and the formation of a new generation of masters seem to come in the years around 500 . |
| 10 | In Canada , Siberia , and the Far East , in the trans-Andean regions of Latin America and in Africa , the heroic building period was to come in the years when the railways stood on the threshold of being overtaken by new transportation developments , the internal combustion engine and later the aeroplane . |
| 11 | And a woman aged 42 now would have to work until the year 2015 when she is 65 . |
| 12 | The Port of Belfast now handles more than 55% of Northern Ireland 's seaborne trade and this impressive figure is likely to increase in the year 's ahead . |
| 13 | It also urged a move away from the practice of streaming — which , given the importance after 1944 of the universal competitive examination at eleven-plus , had tended to increase in the years after the War . |
| 14 | The promise of 1968 had begun to fade before the year had ended . |
| 15 | A Czech cartoon managed to appear in the years of ‘ Normalization ’ with a caption which summed up this perverse process : ‘ Thanks to the continuous development of socialism , we became a developing country . ’ |
| 16 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 17 | Once you have agreed , even if the outcome is a compromise that falls short of your original expectations , the sensible thing is to try to stop worrying about what has occurred in the past and to concentrate on the years ahead . |
| 18 | The Company has continued to flourish over the years and Edenderry now has a thriving Company Section and Junior Section . |
| 19 | French coal production is likely to fall by nearly 40% by 1990 and to halve by the year 2000 . |
| 20 | Population growth in the steep-sloped areas of these countries is expected to increase by the year 2000 , by between 40 and 59 per cent in many areas ( e.g. Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras ) . |
| 21 | The library was pleased to receive during the year a substantial donation in the form of the library of Sir George Taylor , former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew . |
| 22 | And secondly a lot of er a number of consultants want to leave their bonuses in to accrue during the year . |
| 23 | And that nose which seemed to sharpen with the years made her look predatory … |
| 24 | Once again we have tried to reflect in the year 's programme the feed-back we have had from you and this year we have obviously been particularly aware of the financial constraints upon us . |
| 25 | Britain 's 10 biggest tour operators , according to the number of holidays they are licensed to sell in the year ending March 1990 : 1 . |
| 26 | There have been many great events to remember over the years . |
| 27 | LDP were not unhappy with this arrangement as we have a good track record with dividend payments and they believe , as we all do , that the Stoddard group is well placed to prosper in the years ahead , which should me that the share price will rise . |
| 28 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 29 | On a wall in the showhouse at Les 's flagship Bryn Colwyn estate at Penmaen Head , Colwyn Bay , are the awards which he has been so proud to win over the years . |
| 30 | erm to look over the year , and . |