Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987 , but it has increased a great deal in the past year . |
| 2 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 3 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 4 | The Pegasus board refused to ship Sequel source code to developers until its own shrink-wrapped version of the software was finished — delayed further whilst awaiting new European Economic Community VAT regulations to come into force in the new year . |
| 5 | In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 . |
| 6 | They had been arrested in December 1972 and , as a result , did not come under the ‘ Diplock ’ innovations and the more stringent Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act , both of which were to come into force in the following year . |
| 7 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 8 | Specifically , where I t = gross investment in the current year ; b and c = constant coefficients ; Y t-1 = last year 's level of output ; K t-1 = the capital stock at the end of the preceding year . |
| 9 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 10 | Income tax is paid directly to the Exchequer by the individual taxpayer ( mainly through Pay As You Earn — PAYE ) , on the full amount of income from employment and investment in the fiscal year . |
| 11 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 12 | For the first time since the survey was started six years ago , retailers , wholesalers and companies in the motor trade expect to cut investment in the coming year . |
| 13 | BOLTON-BASED building products distributor Cooper Clarke returned to the black with a £126,000 profit in the eight months to end-December , compared with a £274,000 loss in the previous year to end-April . |
| 14 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 15 | The Committee was disappointed at the lack of progress in pursuing the initiative on televising the courts following the defeat in the previous year of the Private Member 's Bill to sponsor a pilot scheme . |
| 16 | A cash ceiling approach , or a set timetable to phase allowances out over five years , would result in very little extra revenue in the first year . |
| 17 | A sum of 250 million dollars would cover the launching of the programme in the first year ; part of the costs of administering the occupation would be incorporated in the 600 million dollars . |
| 18 | At the time of the evaluation School A had already embarked upon curriculum integration in an integrated studies ( IS ) programme in the first year , curriculum augmentation by the addition to the curriculum of study skills for years 1–5 , and was debating infrastructural integration through the physical relocation of the library in the suite of rooms already accommodating the audio-visual resource centre . |
| 19 | It was the 14th most popular programme in the past year , watched by 17.9 million people . |
| 20 | Principal growth in the Unit 's programme in the past year has been in the area of new technology in manufacturing and medical settings . |
| 21 | An apt description of Elizabeth 's cast of mind in the very years when her first biography was planned and written was given by Rudolf Steiner in 1900 . |
| 22 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The department has admitted to a substantial underspend in two important areas or research in the financial year that has just ended . |
| 25 | The curriculum for the junior and senior honours years comprises three optional honours courses in each year , together with a compulsory course in the history of architectural theory in the junior honours year and a dissertation based on individual research in the senior year . |
| 26 | Alan commented that his branch had only had one political talk in the previous year , and even then the councillor had spoken about aircraft . |
| 27 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
| 28 | He started his own practice in the following year , and was employed as a surveyor by the builders Grissell and Peto on Hungerford Market . |
| 29 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 30 | Much practice in the past year or two has reflected just that process , after a good deal of consultation with small businesses . |