Example sentences of "the [num ord] year before " in BNC.
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| 1 | True new issues amounted to a mere $1.2 billion , against $24 billion in 1989 — the last year before Drexel Burnham Lambert , nurturer of the market , went under . |
| 2 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 3 | During the last year before her furlough one hundred and seventeen new soldiers had been sworn in at the Howard corps . |
| 4 | The Forestry Commission 's ( FC 's ) annual report for the year to March 1992 , the last year before its reorganization as the Forest Enterprise and Forestry Authority , shows that private owners planted 10,781 hectares of new woodland and restocked 7,106 hectares during the year , aided by FC grants totalling £17.2 million . |
| 5 | In 1964 – 65 , the last year before his death , his earnings were £14,890 . |
| 6 | Empire Day in the last years before the Great War was described as celebrated with a procession led by the Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry through gaily decorated streets . |
| 7 | In the last years before the war that class undeniably wielded increasing economic power , rapidly developed its own economic organizations , and demonstrated growing political maturity and unity behind its prime political mouthpiece , the Kadet party . |
| 8 | Moreover , after relative tranquillity between 1907 and 1910 , the number of disturbances appears to have risen abruptly in the last years before the war . |
| 9 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 10 | For example the combined current account surplus of the OPEC countries expanded from $8 billion in 1973 to $60 billion the next year before subsiding back to only $5 billion by 1978 , and in the aftermath of the second oil shock the surplus rose to $65 billion in 1979 , $ 110 billion in 1980 , but was then eliminated by 1983 as oil prices came under some downwards pressure . |