Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] year it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 2 | For the first year it is in continual body contact with its mother , clinging tightly to her as she travels and climbing all over her when she stops . |
| 3 | Computer 2000 AG , Munich said its group sales rose 50% to the equivalent of $660m in the first five months of its current fiscal to September 30 : for the full year it is going for 45% growth to $1,600m . |
| 4 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 5 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 6 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 7 | During the past year it has more than doubled . |
| 8 | During the coming year it was intended to undertake research designed , if possible , to show what would be the effect of any such change . |
| 9 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 10 | Oh it 's no been too bad at all I would say since the first of the new year it seems to be improved remarkably . |
| 11 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 12 | In April of the same year it was clear from the interim report of the committee that recommendations would be proposed whereby building development would be controlled throughout the country and that compensation for the public acquisition of land would be set at the standard of 31 March 1939 . |
| 13 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 14 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 15 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 16 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 17 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 18 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 19 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 20 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 21 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 22 | in the million years it has been taking |
| 23 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 24 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 25 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 26 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 27 | In the new year it shrinks ( wanes ) to last quarter on 6 January or disappears as a ‘ new ’ Moon a week later . |
| 28 | In the first year it had been careful to disassociate itself from the truck-driver 's pin-up image by boasting of the high social and business standing of its readers … ‘ seven corporation presidents , fourteen vice-presidents , psychiatrists , a mortician and three embalmers ’ were listed among the first subscribers . |
| 29 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |
| 30 | Erm the budget increase is for Social Fund , for years , eighty seven and eight eight was two ninety five thousand , one hundred and ninety , under the new system in the first year it went down to fifty seven thousand one oh seven . |