Example sentences of "the [adj] year [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er Summer of nineteen forty is the fifty year er commemoration of the Battle of Britain , er and this began as a book display and spread outwards , out of the library and along the high street . |
| 2 | Bartram then told Miller about his method of collecting specimens of pines ; when they are in flower and the young cone just impregnated , and asked whether European pines set their cones on the same spring 's shoot , ‘ or the second year 's wood , as by your draught , the Scotch Pine doth ? ’ |
| 3 | Erm and also we take take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 4 | We take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 5 | And the sales pitch of course is that you do n't take the second year 's payment until a year later . |
| 6 | And the other thing is that the second year 's payment is taken out a year 's later through the same banker 's order . |
| 7 | And we take the second year 's , this is a sales pitch , we take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 8 | I mean we get some people that pull out er cancel or go under and then we do n't get the second year 's payment . |
| 9 | The rules of the 38-year-old competition oblige the winning country to stage the following year 's event — and that could lead to problems for Ireland 's state-backed network , RTE . |
| 10 | And I am almost certain that each one was included in the following year 's NIBA team . |
| 11 | Tradition had it that if the corn-dolly reached the following year 's harvest intact , it augured well for the farm in the year to come . |
| 12 | Er , the following year 's term . |
| 13 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |
| 14 | The climatic conditions of Scotland and parts of Cumbria and Northumbria are particularly suitable for the production of healthy high quality seed potatoes required for the following year 's crop and it is in these areas that most of the seed potatoes are grown . |
| 15 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 16 | Similarly , a thesis listed in the Aslib Index but not in BRTT that year , would appear in the following year 's volume . |
| 17 | The following year 's prediction has been slashed from £314m to £270m . |
| 18 | The sum of £300.24 per person is likely to be approved an increase of £24.76 on the previous year 's poll tax . |
| 19 | In 1991 the previous year 's ceiling of 23.65 million b/d was rolled over for another year , but no country quotas were set . |
| 20 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 21 | The major factor in the incremental process is that the previous year 's budget and level of expenditure is not challenged — there is general acceptance that it is valid . |
| 22 | If he considers an authority 's budget excessive — or , indeed , considers it an excessive increase on the previous year 's budget — that is sufficient reason for him to cap that authority . |
| 23 | The total , including the budgets for central and local government and independent agencies , represented a 74 per cent increase on the previous year 's budget , according to figures presented by Deputy Finance Minister Abdullahi Muhammad Shireh . |
| 24 | Chidzero on July 27 , 1989 , announced a stringent budget for 1989-90 aimed at reducing by 11 per cent the previous year 's budget deficit , and bringing the deficit down to 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 25 | The general administrative budget , at 489,822,000 million francs CFA , was 2.1 per cent down on the previous year 's budget but 1.3 per cent above the actual figure for 1989 . |
| 26 | This was identical to the previous year 's budget [ see p. 37808 ] . |
| 27 | An attempt by liberal Democrat Bill Bradley to waive the rules of the previous year 's budget agreement in order to transfer 2 per cent of the defence budget to additional domestic spending was defeated by 73 votes to 22 . |
| 28 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 29 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |
| 30 | About 12 months ago , ICL Technology chief Jurgen Olschewski could neither envisage revenue growth nor imagine hitting the previous year 's profit levels . |