Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 2 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 3 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 4 | As the mature version of deep slow wave sleep develops in the first year of life , and daytime sleeping is displaced by wakefulness , the number of hours spent in active ( REM ) sleep is eroded until by the age of three years it has dropped from twelve hours to three or four . |
| 5 | Flowering usually starts in the second year , with one flower head — the edible part — at the end of each shoot . |
| 6 | The next phase , the anal phase , usually occurs during the second year of the child 's life . |
| 7 | I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things . |
| 8 | Owner of several Felixes himself , he plans in the next year or two to publish the player 's illustrated scrapbooks for the 1851 and 1852 seasons : ‘ They were intended for publication and are a remarkable social document , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Remove flower stems in the first year for a stronger bushier plant . |
| 10 | Sales of its Unix products will , for instance , outstrip revenues from the DEC versions that it markets over the next year or so , it reckons . |
| 11 | Fires associated with cultivation volatilize 300–700kg nitrogen per ha from vegetation and surface-litter and a further 500–2000 disappear from the surface soils in the next year or two . |
| 12 | Hitherto departments had not been allowed to carry forward underspends into the next financial year though the Treasury was allowed to penalize departments by deducting overspends from the next year 's targets . |
| 13 | There were an awful lot of teething troubles in the first year or so , but it is working very well . |
| 14 | The frequency of intercourse approximately halves in the first year of marriage but takes about 20 years to halve again . |
| 15 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 16 | Second stage recovery generally begins in the third year . |
| 17 | Children enjoyed the VISTA visits according to the questionnaire returns in the third year ; they liked meeting scientists and learning about a range of jobs . |
| 18 | Opening Up The East Josephine Lanyon reports on the second year of East & South which has attracted an extraordinary number of women artists |
| 19 | In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum . |