Example sentences of "the year [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall revenues from licence sales for the year increased to £1.7m in 1992 from £1.3m in 1991 . |
| 2 | Pre-tax profit for the year fell to £809,000 ( v £1.154m ) . |
| 3 | Operating profit for the year fell to £2,450m from £3,400m last year again as a result of redundancy charges . |
| 4 | The deficit on the income and expenditure account for the year amounted to £65,988 ( 1991 — deficit £21,759 ) which is transferred from the accummulated fund . |
| 5 | Net investment in your Society during the year amounted to £256.2 million compared with a figure of £321.3 million in 1988 . |
| 6 | Total expenditure on all research and related work carried out and commissioned by the HSE during the year amounted to £32.9 million . |
| 7 | Charitable donations made during the year amounted to £154,700 [ 1991 £104,900 ] . |
| 8 | Total catastrophe losses in the US during the year amounted to $78m net which compares with $20m in 1991 . |
| 9 | The title of Sports Reporter of the Year went to Oliver Holt of the Liverpool Daily Post and Martin Birchall of sister paper the Liverpool Echo took the title of Photographer of the Year . |
| 10 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 11 | The trade surplus was now expected to be less than US$10,000 million for the year compared to $16,000 million for 1989 ( US$1.00=129.826 cruzeiros as at Nov. 29 , 1990 ) . |
| 12 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |