Example sentences of "[noun prp] for the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Almost every Friday for the past year , and Wednesdays too , some weeks . ’ |
| 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 | Executive power lies with the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) of seven members elected by the Federal Assembly , which also elects in December for the succeeding year two Federal Council members to be President and Vice-President ( head and deputy head of state , currently Arnold Koller and Flavio Cotti respectively ) . |
| 4 | Executive power lies with the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) of seven members elected by the Federal Assembly , which also elects , each December for the succeeding year , two Federal Council members to be President and Vice-President ( head and deputy head of state ) . |
| 5 | Canadian systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc has purchased client-server consulting firm Advanced Management Systems CA , Caracas , Venezuela , for an undisclosed sum : AMS specialises in the petroleum , minerals extraction , finance and public utilities sectors , and has worked with SHL for the past year on a joint project for Maraven , a state-owned Venezuelan oil company ; the two companies developed and implemented a Domestic Marketing System to deal with order entry , distribution , and accounting issues for petroleum products in Venezuela ; the Ottawa , Canada-based SHL says that it is keen to expand into the rapidly developing Latin American market . |
| 6 | Books — Reading for the new year . |
| 7 | The wooden spoon award went to Mike Tunnell for the third year running . |
| 8 | The town of Cerska , near the Serbian border , has been methodically shelled by the Serbs for the past year and has , at the same time , been denied food . |
| 9 | The joint BR/LRT Capitalcard for the following year was announced , along with plans to electrify from Bishop 's Stortford to Cambridge , on the East Coast main line to Huntingdon , and between Romford and Upminster . |
| 10 | CLOVER Leaf Cars have presented a silver rosebowl to their Mercedes-Benz service and parts department at Odiham for the third year running . |
| 11 | All United States economic aid to Yugoslavia for the fiscal year 1991 ( amounting to about US$5,000,000 ) , as well as US support for credits in international financial institutions , was frozen as of May 6 . |
| 12 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 13 | Who was that , they did erm , a trip to Holland for the last year , did n't they ? |
| 14 | Stroking Oxford for the second year running is a Glasgow Academy FP , Iain Gardiner . |
| 15 | The painting Competition was won by Eric Gavin and Christopher Houston for the 7–11 year olds . |
| 16 | Submitted to parliament by Prime Minister Alphonse Poati-Souchalaty on Dec. 14 , 1989 , the 1990 budget totalled 251,134 million francs CFA , as against 235,833 million francs CFA for the previous year . |
| 17 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 18 | A deep hole has been discovered over Antarctica for the third year in succession . |