Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Ives last week reported pretax profits of £10.5m for the half year ended 29th January 1993 , an increase of 4.1% over the same period last year . |
| 2 | Premium income during the half year was up nearly 50% reflecting GA 's involvement in a number of new major accounts . |
| 3 | The focus of the project is the social and economic history of Aleppo between the latter years of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the creation of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria in 1958 . |
| 4 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 5 | for example , the Department of Agriculture for Scotland ( DAFS ) estimated there to be 75,000 people working in agriculture in Scotland in 1976 , but the Department of Employment data for the same year revealed only 33,000 people , or just 44 per cent of the DAFS total . |
| 6 | Whether it was the abandonment in 1981 of established procedures for settling the pay and conditions of civil servants , abolition of the Civil Service Department in the same year , deterioration of levels of pay relative to the private sector , efficiency scrutinies in departments in search of savings , attempts to limit index-linked pensions , or the reduction in numbers of staff , there was no doubting Mrs Thatcher 's hostility to much of the ethos of the civil service . |
| 7 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 8 | The Borough arms in its now familiar garter , appeared on the cars in the same year . |
| 9 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |
| 10 | He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1944 , and was elected an honorary fellow of New College in the same year . |
| 11 | The four companies revealed substantial losses in the half year to September , as the public reaction to the corruption allegations grew , and as the mood in the Tokyo exchange remained subdued by the property price collapse afflicting the country . |
| 12 | Written premiums at the half year were up 13.6% from $600.1m to $681.5m reflecting a much higher average premium across the whole account with some selective growth offset by a reduction in large fleet business . |
| 13 | The Auto account , which was affected by adverse weather in the first quarter , is now benefiting from successful rating action and produced a good result at the half year . |
| 14 | Following a deficit of $8.9m in the second quarter ( 1992 : $7.8m loss ) losses at the half year were $9.6m ( 1992 : $9.6m loss ) on premium income up 10% . |
| 15 | In Australia , losses at the half year were down from $7.0m to $5.2m following a deficit in the second quarter only marginally better at $3.4m ( 1992 : $3.5m loss ) . |
| 16 | There was a less than satisfactory result in Europe , although losses at the half year were marginally lower at $20.2m ( 1992 : $20.6m loss ) following a deficit in the second quarter down from $9.4m to $8.2m . |
| 17 | ‘ In the United Kingdom action on expenses and more selective underwriting procedures have resulted in a substantial reduction in underwriting losses at the half year , even after additional reserve strengthening . |
| 18 | PRE-TAX LOSS AT THE HALF YEAR OF $21.2M REPRESENTS IMPROVEMENT OF $84.0M ( $105.2M LOSS ) |
| 19 | Hence the Strafpatent of the same year , which limited the lord 's right to punish his peasants , and the Unterthanspatent , also of 1781 , which allowed a peasant to lodge a complaint against his lord with officials of the central government . |
| 20 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 21 | Long-term business profits are up from $14.6m to $20.9m , despite the continuing impact of development costs in Hong Kong and Ireland during the half year . |
| 22 | The company 's decision to pull out of retailing and sell its interests to close rival South Western Electricity has helped push profits to £29.7m for the half year , up £9m . |
| 23 | There was improvement in all the major lines during the half year except Personal Property which was adversely affected by weather claims in the first quarter . |
| 24 | A team existed before this as in February of the same year there was held at the Institute a cricket concert attended by a large audience . |
| 25 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 26 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |
| 27 | Indeed by December of the same year , his take-home pay was over £2 ( 40s ) . |
| 28 | In December of the same year , three other members of the CDHES , Carlos Vides , Francisco Cortez and Norberto Huezo Martinez were captured and remain disappeared . |
| 29 | The child did not survive and was buried on 27 December of the same year . |
| 30 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |