Example sentences of "in [adj] year a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1910 the chief sponsor of the union was the Liberal Party , which saw political capital to be made out of organizing farm workers in the Tory rural strongholds , but in that year a strike in the Norfolk village of St Faith 's evoked accusations of a Liberal sell-out and provoked the membership to cut its ties with the Liberal Party . |
| 2 | Then later in that year a composer already associated with the Barberini , the great monodist Luigi Rossi , was invited to Paris ; the best Italian singers were engaged , Torelli prepared expensive spectacles , and Rossi 's L'Orfeo was given before a small and highly select audience on 2 March 1647 . |
| 3 | In that year a lady and a little girl ( presumably the daughter ) fell from an otherwise deserted station platform into the path of an oncoming train ; the station master on seeing the incident attempted to rescue them both but was only able to save the girl . |
| 4 | In 1731 he was appointed to minister in Tunbridge Wells at the meeting house in Little Mount Sion , and in that year a tract attributed to him — Divine Benevolence : Or , An Attempt to prove that the Principal End Of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of his Creatures — was published by John Noon . |
| 5 | In that year a family earning 18s. per week was paying 10.2 per cent of this small income in indirect taxes ( 7. 1% ) , National Health ( 2% ) and Unemployment Insurance contributions ( 1.1% ) These percentages declined as incomes rose . |
| 6 | Until 1880 oil was the only illuminant in use , but in that year a number of West Coast vehicles were lighted by compressed shale oil gas or , as it was commonly known , Pope 's gas . |
| 7 | In this year a collection of essays in his honour was published ( edited by Richard March and Tambimuttu ) , and he told Mary Hutchinson that he had not begun to read some of the contributions . |
| 8 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 9 | ‘ [ Subject to section 63(A) ( b ) ] where in any year a person is employed in director 's or higher-paid employment and — ( a ) by reason of his employment there is provided for him , or for others being members of his family or household , any benefit to which this section applies ; and ( b ) the cost of providing the benefit is not ( apart from this section ) chargeable to tax as his income , there is to be treated as emoluments of the employment , and accordingly chargeable to income tax under Schedule E , an amount equal to whatever is the cash equivalent of the benefit . |