Example sentences of "in his [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Preserving the union ’ has become the president 's first priority : a ‘ sacred cause ’ , he called it in his new year 's message . |
| 2 | In his new year 's message he urged the government to mitigate its harshest effects . |
| 3 | I ca n't argue with this , but I urge him to include driving lessons in his New Year 's resolutions . |
| 4 | Will the Chancellor assist businesses in making their investment plans by telling us whether he has revised his growth forecast for this year in the light of the Prime Minister 's statements in his new year interview , which seemed to cast considerable doubt on the growth forecasts given earlier ? |
| 5 | The President of North Korea , Kim Il Sung , called in his New Year national address for freedom of movement between the two Korean states . |
| 6 | In his New Year address Fiji 's President , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , suggested that Fiji 's new constitution ( guaranteeing political power for the country 's native Melanesian inhabitants ) would be adopted during the latter half of 1990 , and that legislative elections would be held within two years . |
| 7 | The NSF 's earlier decision to abolish the death penalty had been confirmed by Iliescu in his New Year 's broadcast to the Romanian people on Jan. 1 , " in order to stress the profoundly popular and humanist character of the new regime " and in compliance with students ' proposals that " the two dictators [ i.e. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ] were the last persons who deserved this fate " . |
| 8 | In his New Year address Iliescu announced that collective and state farms were to be largely privatized , and that a five-day working week would be introduced in March ( most Romanians had been required under Ceausescu to work a six- or even a seven-day week ) . |
| 9 | In his New Year 's message to the Albanian people on Jan. 1 Ramiz Alia , the head of state and first secretary of the ruling Party of Labour ( APL ) , suggested that the upheavals in Eastern Europe had inspired Albania 's enemies to renew a " campaign of slanders " . |
| 10 | Following Kim Il Sung 's call in his New Year speech for increased production [ see below ] , Kim Ni Kyong and Kim Pil Hwan were on Jan. 30 , 1990 , appointed to the newly established ministries of the Coal Industry and the Mining Industry . |
| 11 | In his New Year message in January 1990 Lee designated the First Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister , Goh Chok Tong , 48 , as his successor , indicating that he would take over " before the end of 1990 " [ see also p. 37085 ] . |
| 12 | In his New Year message on Jan. 1 , 1990 , President Ibrahim Babangida ordered a general amnesty for prisoners held without trial or for minor offences . |
| 13 | In his New Year message to the nation , broadcast on national radio and television on Dec. 31 , Sassou-Nguesso announced that a " national conference " would be convened on Feb. 25 , 1991 , in order to set a date for multiparty elections . |
| 14 | In his New Year message the SOC President Heng Samrin rejected the central components of the plan which involved the UN 's supervision of key Phnom Penh ministries ( including Defence and Foreign Affairs ) and the disarming of all four factions . |
| 15 | In his New Year address to the country on Jan. 1 , and at a meeting with opposition representatives on Jan. 8 , President Ramiz Alia had insisted that the elections would go ahead as scheduled . |
| 16 | Goumba , who questioned the government 's commitment to a national conference , also said that items had been deleted from the meeting 's agenda , dealing with the media and an electoral code , while President André Kolingba in his New Year address had spoken of the February conference as a " broad national debate " which " can not be a sovereign national conference " . |
| 17 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 18 | Accordingly , he read arts in his first year ; commerce ( which included accounting , commercial law , political science and a couple of doses of mathematics ) in his second ; arts ( though strangely retaining political science ) for his third and fourth years , to which was added zoology . |
| 19 | If Moxon , still young in captaincy terms , were to be given the job there would be a strong argument in favour of a team manager and as Illingworth , perhaps wisely , has rejected one offer to return ( from Leicestershire ) Yorkshire might look at another native son who has , from all accounts , done an excellent job in his first year of managment at Somerset , Jack Birkenshaw . |
| 20 | In his first year as leader , Rajiv Gandhi threatened to throw out the thugs . |
| 21 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 22 | ‘ He is a definite runner , all being well , ’ said Cole , who restricted the colt to the minimum trip of five furlongs in his first year . |
| 23 | In Essex in his first year , Douglas-Smith helped to establish three new WEA branches at Dunmow , Maldon and Witham ; Terminal courses at three other centres and encouraged the creation of the Essex County Federation of WEA Branches . |
| 24 | Also at the tournament were Manuel and Severiano Ballesteros , who was in his first year on the tour , and only eighteen years old . |
| 25 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 26 | When he returned to college immediately following his discharge , he was lucky to escape with relatively minor punishment — the Master ordered one month 's gating and ninety pages of Greek translation — and was determined not only to drop his more unsuitable friends but , as in his first year at Cambridge , ‘ to write for all the Prizes ’ . |
| 27 | Because he was so far ahead in his first year , he spent his time on other things . |
| 28 | Mendy said he would be backed by a consortium — so far un-named — of professional sports people and had been guaranteed £100,000 in his first year , £200,000 in his second and £500,000 in the third . |
| 29 | In his first year of operation from April 1991 , the Pensions Ombudsman received more than 2,100 complaints . |
| 30 | Adam was nineteen and in his first year at university , though at that time at home for the Easter break . |