Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRINCESS Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , is to marry wealthy Irish aristocrat 's daughter Serena Stanhope in the New Year , friends said last night . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Aratus wrote his hymn to Pan after Antigonus Gonatas ' victory over the Gauls in the following year . |
| 8 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Neil , who was the most seriously hurt of 67 injured in the blast earlier this month , plans to marry Sue in the New Year . |
| 11 | ANDY TILL , the British light-middleweight champion , has been offered £25,000 by Mickey Duff to defend his title against Robert McCracken in the New Year . |
| 12 | Andy Till , the British light-middleweight champion , has been offered £25,000 by Mickey Duff to defend his title against Robert McCracken in the New Year . |
| 13 | Police chief Calvin Ross said a person was being questioned about the killing of Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand , the eighth foreign tourist and the fourth German killed in Florida in the past year . |
| 14 | More than 20 horses have been attacked , many sexually , in Hampshire in the past year . |
| 15 | Taxpayers who chose to assess themselves would compute the tax due on their total income for the year ending 5 April and , having taken into account any tax deducted or paid in instalments , would send this , or a repayment claim , to the Revenue , with their return by 1 January in the following year . |
| 16 | These are reasons or issues which have increasingly come to dominate our discussions within Obair in the past year . |
| 17 | What about erm , Aran in the fourth year ? |
| 18 | He retired as a major in 1837 and became a sheriff of Cork in the same year . |
| 19 | The introduction of the new sales office will give opportunities to expand sales in the North of England in the next year . |
| 20 | The World Bank has announced that its report for 1992 is to be dedicated to the themes of environment and development following the momentum built up around these issues as a result of the UNCED conference , to be held in Brazil in the same year . |
| 21 | ‘ Effective Intervention ’ was produced in Scotland in the same year . |
| 22 | He was on the point of taking the key fortress of Valencia in the same year , when he fell sick and died within a matter of weeks . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Formerly French Soudan , Mali achieved independence in June 1960 with Senegal , the two countries having formed the Federation of Mali in the previous year . |
| 25 | Edwin Chase was an Englishman , evidently with plenty of money , passing his time before entry to Cambridge in the following year . |
| 26 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 27 | We also asked questions about some important events in Zambia itself : the change in the vice-presidency in 1970 , the conference of non-aligned countries held in Lusaka in the same year , the price control measures introduced a year later and the increased prices being paid to farmers for maize in 1971 . |
| 28 | The new law will be put to the Commons in the New Year . |
| 29 | I have enjoyed the closest possible co-operation with Chancellor Kohl in the past year and I intend to continue to do so in the same capacity in years to come . |
| 30 | ACTRESS Fiona Mollison , currently filming the two-part Lynda La Plante thriller , Seekers — to be shown on ITV in the New Year — will step behind the camera and turn producer for her next project . |