Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , the substantial improvement reported at the half year has continued as the benefit of rating action , more selective underwriting procedures and cost controls prove increasingly effective across the whole portfolio . |
| 2 | have ever thought in the same year , we 'd have lost two of the greatest players that this country has ever seen . |
| 3 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 4 | The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing . |
| 5 | Simultaneously a dozen Greek newspapers were being financed by British money , which was also used in the same year to set up a pro-British magazine in Japan . |
| 6 | A further 36,000 teenage pregnancies were aborted in the same year ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 8 | A more sensitive indicator of fertility behaviour is the average completed family size of women born in the same year . |
| 9 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 10 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 11 | It also seems likely that Wagner , thirty-one years Nietzsche 's senior and born in the same year as Nietzsche 's long dead father , was in some sense a father-figure and additionally attractive on this account . |
| 12 | A cohort may consist of all persons born in the same year ( a birth cohort or generation ) ; but all women married in a particular year or a random sample of all cancer sufferers diagnosed in a certain month are equally valid examples of cohorts . |
| 13 | The difference may seem slight , but it could affect interpretation of the event , since the most important assembly of the Gallic provinces , the Council of the Gauls , was re-established in the former year . |
| 14 | It was followed in the same year by the rather more successful Queen of Scots . |
| 15 | The capital shortage was exacerbated in the same year by a massive interest rate mis-match in the treasury book that eventually cost more than £300m . |
| 16 | This deterioration reflected exceptional items of £994 million ( £888 million after tax ) , which were mainly a result of the provisions for employee severance costs and asset write-downs announced at the half year . |
| 17 | In cases where the expenditure is incurred in the same year in which the building is brought into use , both an initial allowance and a writing-down allowance will be available . |
| 18 | A new bus service from the Tower to Hoo Hill was started in the same year , sealing the eventual fate of the Layton tram route . |
| 19 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 20 | A major Memling show , organised by Dirck de Vos for the Bruges Museum , is planned for the same year . |
| 21 | This series was so popular that it was repeated in the same year . |
| 22 | The Eugenics Laboratory , founded in 1907 under the psychologist and social imperialist , Karl Pearson , and the rival Eugenics Education Society , begun in the same year with its journal The Eugenics Review , brought together a broad coalition of biologists , medics , clerics and prominent intellectuals and politicians . |
| 23 | In Das Rheingold , finished in 1854 , and , up to a point , in Die Walküre , begun in the same year , Wagner came as near as he was ever to come to giving his theories practical effect . |
| 24 | The Government Social Survey was created in the same year as an adjunct to the Central Statistical Office , more recently combined into the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 25 | The Promenade line was extended in the same year from Dean Street to Victoria ( South ) Pier , using a new type of conduit with a hinged top for easy inspection . |
| 26 | ( The poll-tax was in fact extended in the same year to Esthonia and Livonia for these reasons . ) |
| 27 | These reached a peak during the truce of 1444–49 , but were halved when war was renewed in the latter year . |
| 28 | He was elected sheriff for Kent in 1679 and knighted in the same year . |
| 29 | Scotland had its own Royal Commission established in the same year ; in Wales consultations had already begun leading to the appointment of a working party ( Wood 1976 : 119 ; Alexander 1928b:29 ) ; and Northern Ireland was still governed in these matters from Stormont . |
| 30 | This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano . |