Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 2 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 3 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 4 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 5 | The planned legislation , to be introduced in next year 's finance bill , will simplify the system so that the self-employed are taxed on profits earned in the current year , rather than the complex preceding year system which currently exists . |
| 6 | This involves accruing any receipts which have been earned in the financial year and accruing any payments which relate to purchases made in the financial year . |
| 7 | Fifteen percent of group revenues are systems integration based ; last year related revenues grew 67% , and a further 54% growth is expected in the current year . |
| 8 | to 8,500 is expected in the current year . |
| 9 | A Treasury consultative document is expected in the New Year . |
| 10 | Its supply business , to customers outside its geographical area , showed an increased loss of £18.3m but a profit is expected in the full year . |
| 11 | Other guests of honour invited by the Mayor were Charlton Heston and Ian Ziering from Beverly Hills 90210 , in which Miss Dennis will herself be appearing in the new year . |
| 12 | Can the Minister allay my suspicions about this by assuring me that as a result of a few industrialists having contributed to the programme we shall not find the names of certain chairmen and managing directors appearing in the new year honours list ? |
| 13 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 14 | Almost 1 million people will be helped back to work in the coming year by employment and training programmes . |
| 15 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 16 | His report ( Cmnd 1432 , 1961 ) resulted in major reforms in the system of Treasury control , many of which remain in place today , though substantially modified in the intervening years . |
| 17 | From memory , I believe that six incidents have been reported in the past year . |
| 18 | Models of the field data , gathered from three detailed traverses , will be reported in the coming year . |
| 19 | The main instrument for this purpose was to be the Polytechnics and the White Paper provisionally recommended that 28 be established , to which two more were added in the following year , making 30 in all . |
| 20 | A further 28 stores are expected to be added in the current year . |
| 21 | But the most vicious discriminiation had come in the previous year , from Edmund Wilson , who applauded the structure of The Waste Land by contrasting it to ‘ the extremely ill-focused Eight Cantos of his imitator Mr Ezra Pound , who presents only a bewildering mosaic with no central emotion to provide a key ’ . |
| 22 | The Norman exchequer ( probably instituted in the early years of the century , at the same time as its English counterpart ) used the tally , the chequered cloth , and the abacus to provide records for the illiterate and to overcome the considerable problems posed by the use of Roman numerals in addition and subtraction . |
| 23 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 24 | Trading in the new year , according to managing director Giles Shepard , has not improved greatly . |
| 25 | Harnessing our financial resources remains a major priority for us and despite another major capital expenditure programme , we expect to achieve a more balanced position from trading in the current year . |
| 26 | The basis of independent and safe personal mobility is best developed in skills established in the pre-school years and fostered in the early years at school . |
| 27 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 28 | Congratulations are offered by members to the following whose names are included in the New Year 's Honours List : . |
| 29 | And I am almost certain that each one was included in the following year 's NIBA team . |
| 30 | A similar paragraph was contained in the subsequent year 's report , but otherwise no information was given to council members about the deals . |