Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 2 | INTERNATIONAL dressage at Goodwood from May 1-3 , which is being sponsored by Hermes for the fourth year , is attracting more foreign competitors than ever before , writes Anne Ince . |
| 3 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 4 | ‘ The Tasmanian Devil ’ has claimed over 350 victims in all quarters of the United States in the last year , and is noted for the savage ingenuity of his frenzied attacks . |
| 5 | Promoting Historic Scotland abroad has taken Bill to conferences and trade missions in South East Asia , Japan , Germany , Canada and the United States in the last year . |
| 6 | In Dundee in the first year more than 2,000 students applied to the access fund and more than £300,000 was allocated to them . |
| 7 | There had n't been a Friday or Saturday in the last year which had n't been occupied by some social gathering , where he 'd mingled with Vanessa 's friends . |
| 8 | Wimpey Construction UK , Eastern has just completed the £25 million centre , the largest building project to be completed in Milton Keynes in the last years . |
| 9 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 10 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 11 | They held a Soiree in January of the next year at which 140 were present ; tea was made in the manse kitchen . |
| 12 | They held a Soiree in January of the next year at which 140 were present ; tea was made in the manse kitchen . |
| 13 | Her life at Remaisnil in the first years had no routine ; she continued to travel regularly around Europe overseeing shops as well as production in Helmond . |
| 14 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 15 | What about erm , Aran in the fourth year ? |
| 16 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 17 | The introduction of the new sales office will give opportunities to expand sales in the North of England in the next year . |
| 18 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 19 | In the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such methods were more difficult to use ; but the press bureaux with which more and more of the foreign offices of Europe were now equipping themselves ( the Habsburg empire in 1879 , Russia in the first years of the twentieth century , Sweden in 1909 ) were used increasingly to channel information to foreign journalists and news agencies and thus , it was hoped , create a favourable climate of opinion . |
| 20 | From the beginning of the reign of King Richard I in 1189 the method was revived and , from that time onwards , has been the accepted way of expressing the year date in civil government and other documents ; the form being , for example , that names of signatories are subscribed or the seal affixed ‘ this first day of July in the Thirtyseventh year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second … and in the year of Our Lord One thousand and nine hundred and eighty eight . ’ |
| 21 | This line did not meet with the approval of the IRA hardliners , who have escalated the violence in Northern Ireland over the last year to an intensity not seen since the worst days of the 1970s . |
| 22 | The wooden spoon award went to Mike Tunnell for the third year running . |
| 23 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 24 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 25 | CLOVER Leaf Cars have presented a silver rosebowl to their Mercedes-Benz service and parts department at Odiham for the third year running . |
| 26 | He spent from July to October of the first year in the papal towns . |
| 27 | Now three seasons old , Athletico had a surprise 2–1 first round victory over Shedford Sunday in the first year , before going out to Nettles 5x Lager/Kellys Spicy Bacon Bites Division One champions , AFC Brampton by seven goals to less . |
| 28 | MORE than 2000 houses will be provided in Lothian over the next year in the largest investment programme yet undertaken by Scottish Homes . |
| 29 | However , with the main continental European economies unlikely to grow any faster than the UK over the next year or so , exports are not going to be a powerful recovery force for the economy or corporate earnings through 1993 . |
| 30 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |