Example sentences of "but in the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 2 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 3 | In fact public expenditure fell to as low as 39% of GDP in 1988/89 , but in the recessionary years of the early 1990s the percentage has started to rise once again . |
| 4 | But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life . |
| 5 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 6 | The school had a capacity to accept 625 boys but in the relevant years the school was not full to capacity . |
| 7 | In March 1915 at a discussion between London Tramways Managers , Mr. Mason said he did not think women were suitable to conduct large open top cars , but in the New Year , the Company had to employ them , as so many men were being called up in the forces . |
| 8 | Currently , the typical monthly payment for a £50,000 endowment mortgage is £554.27. * But in the first year of HeadStart 531 , this would drop to just £287.15** — a very impressive saving ! |
| 9 | But in the first years of the twentieth century the scale of such efforts sharply increased . |
| 10 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 11 | But in the golden years institutionalized pay bargaining constituted one of the transmission mechanisms through which the requirements of accumulation , and the competitive struggles bred by them , generated the necessary real wage increases . |
| 12 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 13 | Hindenburg was elected President of the Republic in 1925 ; he was re-elected in 1932 but in the following year , by then virtually senile , he was persuaded to appoint Adolf Hitler chancellor . |
| 14 | But in the following year William Whitehead , a poet laureate , defends the village of Nuneham Courtenay ( possibly one origin of Goldsmith 's Auburn ) , built in the previous decade to replace the old , which stood much too close to Lord Harcourt 's new Palladian mansion : |
| 15 | The 1988 census had recorded Bhutan 's population as 1,370,000 , of whom 45 per cent were ethnic Nepalese , but in the following year King Jigme claimed that all but 28,000 Nepalese were illegal immigrants . |
| 16 | Rates had cost £14,093 million to collect in 1988-89 but in the following year when they were replaced , the collection of the poll tax and non-domestic rates cost Scottish taxpayers £23,735 million . |
| 17 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 18 | In 1355 an expedition to Normandy led by the king proved unavailing , but in the next year the French forces were crushed at Poitiers and their king , John , was captured . |
| 19 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 20 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 21 | Taiwanese investment has been flowing into the mainland since the early 1980s , but in the past year the flow has become a flood . |
| 22 | But in the past year he has slipped quietly into the background as team manager Micky Stewart and captain Graham Gooch have dominated selection . |
| 23 | But in the past year , the wheels have started to come off the tourism trade . |
| 24 | In 1962 the increase in population had been 1,172 but in the same year only nineteen new houses had been built ; land had to be found for new housing . |
| 25 | About 120 thousand Americans travelled to Europe in 1900 and by 1990 that figure had reached 7 million , but in the same year about 14 million US citizens travelled to Mexico and 13.4 million to Canada . |
| 26 | In 1059 Anselm of Lucca , the future Pope Alexander II , and St Peter Damian put down a riot against the Patarini , but in the same year their chief , Pope Nicholas II , restored the old archbishop to his throne . |
| 27 | But in the same year we now have two opportunities to celebrate : our capital city of culture on one hand , and our Great Rebellion on the other . |
| 28 | But in the last year we 've taken some very bold steps . |
| 29 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |