Example sentences of "in [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 3 | In that year they introduced a new rule which stated : |
| 4 | In that year they introduced their ‘ New Dwarf Blotched and Striped ’ mixture ‘ producing flowers of many colours , but all beautifully blotched and striped . ’ |
| 5 | What had the members seen for their entrance fees and contributions when it could be shown that in that year they received some £pound9,000 in benefit while over £pound32,000 went into the management of the union ? |
| 6 | 1889 was a better one still ; as a matter of fact in that year we reached , perhaps , the zenith of our power . |
| 7 | The ex the extra cost of privatization is going to be one heck of a lot more than than without any privatization , in that year we 're talking about immediately , is it not ? |
| 8 | In that year em waves from Venus at radio wavelengths greater than about 10 mm were detected by means of radio telescopes . |
| 9 | In that year it was ‘ commonly reported by the commoners … that Mr Cromwell of Ely had undertaken , they paying him a groat for every cow they had upon the common , to hold the drainers in suit for five years ’ . |
| 10 | In 1980–1 , a fairly typical year , the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture for land-drainage schemes , including some urban work , amounted to about £30.5 million , of which £23.7 million was allocated to the water authorities , while the rest went to internal drainage boards and local authorities.2 In that year it is estimated that the water authorities spent around £40 million on capital drainage schemes for agriculture . |
| 11 | In that year it carried up to 26 000 heavy goods vehicles a day . |
| 12 | Until 1860 this was the work of the college of commerce ; but in that year it was taken over by the foreign ministry and ten years later replaced by an annual list of Swedish diplomats and ministry officials . |
| 13 | Where a capital sum is paid to the settlor in the year of assessment by a body corporate connected with the settlement in that year it shall be assumed until the contrary is shown that an associated payment of an amount not less than the amount of the capital sum has been made to that body corporate by the trustees of the settlement ( s678(7) ) . |
| 14 | 1985 was special for me — as one of the National Display Team I took part in the CCPR celebrations at the Royal Albert Hall , and later in that year I successfully completed the Medau Teacher Training Course . |
| 15 | By 1820 , not only did he own Freames , but he was apparently also the owner of neighbouring Pitts Mill , for in that year he leased both to Nathaniel Samuel Marling . |
| 16 | By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days . |
| 17 | In 1890 he officially attended the installation of the 46th Mayor in his long career and in that year he also attended the unveiling of the Armada Memorial . |
| 18 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 19 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 20 | In that year he produced an outpouring of anti-royalist cartoons , with twenty-six lampoons of royalty being etched in all ( Hill , 1965 : 44 ) . |
| 21 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 22 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 23 | In that year he became GCMG . |
| 24 | In that year he married a Bristol woman and their only child , named Elizabeth after her mother , was born in 1811 . |
| 25 | In that year he was host to the Princess Anne , who came to the synagogue during Passover , the first occasion on which a member of the royal family visited the Jews at prayer . |
| 26 | In that year he extended his syllabus by adding architecture , magnetics , and astronomy to the standard topics of mechanics , hydrostatics , pneumatics , and optics . |
| 27 | In that year he passed into the service of Richard de Clare , seventh Earl of Gloucester [ q.v. ] , as his steward and went round the earl 's estates hearing complaints against the earl 's officials . |
| 28 | In that year he was appointed CBE , and received the degree of honorary D.Litt. from both the universities of Wales and Ireland . |
| 29 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 30 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |