Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1857 he was promoted to locomotive superintendent of the northern division , covering all routes of the LNWR north of Rugby , at Crewe works where in the following year the first of almost 1,000 of his 0–6–0 type freight locomotives were built . |
| 2 | The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning . |
| 3 | Early redemption of a loan carries a penalty of 90 days ' extra interest , except during the first year of the five year deal , when an additional 150 days ' interest is levied . |
| 4 | That argument would I think be very persuasive if I were able to be confident that the levels of conversion is one which would be an adequate and proper one , it is relatively new , there is nothing wrong with that , it is not apparently been a conversion which has been put into practice , except in the last year because have only started conversion when the Nissan Serena was brought out . |
| 5 | In the same broadcast , Erman announced government proposals to cut armed forces numbers from an estimated 75,000 to 55,000 and to reduce the period of conscription from a year to six months , although in the current year the number of conscripts called up was expected to be doubled . |
| 6 | In the event , he survived the Conference debate on crime and punishment without much difficulty , although in the following year back-benchers on his own side of the House of Commons forced open again the politically sensitive question of corporal punishment . |
| 7 | Last year Britons swigged water worth about £150m ( $243m ) , 60% more than in the previous year . |
| 8 | Wellcome announced pre-tax profits of $413m during the 13 months ended 31 August 1991 , 28 per cent higher than in the previous year . |
| 9 | Bio Research Ireland , a division of the Irish Science and Technology Agency , exceeded its targets for 1990 , with actual income of IR£1.06m ( £1 = IR£1.04 ) , 64 per cent higher than in the previous year . |
| 10 | Louis was told that it was substantially smaller than in the previous year , but in fact the allied fleet assembled at Portsmouth consisted of 63 English ships and 36 Dutch , with a combined fire-power of 6736 guns , plus 38 fireships ; the French , moving up-Channel from Brest , could muster 44 warships with 3240 guns and 38 fireships . |
| 11 | First , Christmas was two days later than in the previous year ( because 1992 was a leap year ) and fell on a Friday . |
| 12 | SunSoft company claims it did 35% more business on Interactive Unix in 1992 than in the previous year , when the Interactive Systems Corp unit was still owned by Eastman Kodak . |
| 13 | SunSoft company claims it did 35% more business on Interactive Unix in 1992 than in the previous year , when the Interactive Systems Corp unit was still owned by Eastman Kodak Co . |
| 14 | Despite recession , and although the total number of investments fell by 10% , venture capitalists have poured $1.1 billion into budding European enterprises in 1992 , 6% more in dollar terms than in the previous year . |
| 15 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , although there were fifteen fewer quangos overall than in the previous year , the twelve months ending April 1987 still saw sixty-six new bodies set up , the Ministry of Agriculture leading the way with twenty-eight . |
| 17 | Even in the thick of recession , companies in the UK have spent six per cent more on research and development in 1992 than in the previous year . |
| 18 | Despite the recession the UK spent 6% more on R&D in 1992 than in the previous year . |
| 19 | more in 1990-91 than in the previous year . |
| 20 | Gross sugar production for 1989 was expected to be slightly lower than in the previous year , at 614,220 tonnes compared with 672,087 tonnes . |
| 21 | The surplus of S$1,500 million would be 38 per cent lower than in the previous year . |
| 22 | The 1991 budget , adopted in January 1991 , provided for expenditure of Z2,167,000 million , 100,000 million less than in the previous year . |
| 23 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 24 | Consumer electronics exports grew more slowly than in the previous year , but sales of computer disks rose by 31 per cent to S$7,200 million . |
| 25 | Remarkably , more than a third ( 83m ) are University of Wales dissertations , three metres and a great deal of midnight oil more than in the previous year . |
| 26 | The track that Mr Foyt made his second home has changed over the years , but perhaps no more so than in the past year . |
| 27 | At the time of writing , Lebanon is probably a little less hazardous than in the last year or so . |
| 28 | In some schools the janitor was responsible for drill , although by the enlightened year of 1937 this was being phased out together with the use of wooden rifles . |
| 29 | Although the Dwarfs often tried to recapture Karak Eight Peaks they did not succeed until about the Imperial year 2470 , when Belegar established a fortified bridgehead in the old citadel . |
| 30 | They then tend to slump rapidly until about the eighth year ( known as ‘ the years of depression ’ ) when the sward is considerably less productive than the original permanent pasture . |