Example sentences of "in [adj] year it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In that year it carried up to 26 000 heavy goods vehicles a day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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) ) . |
| 6 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 7 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 8 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 9 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 10 | In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place . |
| 11 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |
| 12 | In those years it is the sudden traumatic experience which may be the spark to engage fierce enthusiasms in their educational development . |
| 13 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 14 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 15 | In one year it won 6% of the market ! |
| 16 | So will the determination of whether they have other rights ( for example voting ) or of whether their preferential dividend , is cumulative ( in the sense that if passed in one year it must nevertheless be paid in a later one before any subordinate class receives a dividend ) or non-cumulative ( in the sense that the dividend once passed , is lost for ever ) . |
| 17 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 18 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 19 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 20 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 21 | In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 22 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 23 | In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking . |
| 24 | In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals . |
| 25 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 26 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 27 | In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning . |
| 28 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 29 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 30 | This is a landmark visible for miles along the coast ; indeed there was a protest from seafarers when in recent years it was feared the spire might need to be dismantled . |