Example sentences of "[adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 2 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 3 | The Ben Hird Sword commemorates his seventy-two year association with the event , and is awarded for the greatest number of hits by a longbowman . |
| 4 | An exceptional letter ( wielding wit or thought or a new stance on an ageing issue ) will not only win that automatic free year 's Letter Of The Month subscription , but an array of mystery merchandise at which to marvel . |
| 5 | Having just shelled out for yet another year 's subscription to fabbo Guitarist magazine , I was raisy-eyebrowed to see under ‘ Postscript ’ in September 's issue : ‘ … will not only win that automatic free year 's Letter of the Month subscription … blah , blah , blah , blah … ’ |
| 6 | Right the sheets are coming round , when you get yours , your name on it and today 's date on it please , that 's all , I 've already punched holes in it so it 's ready to go in your file Now is there anyone who does not have one of these sheets , it says at the top year seven , module one , survey on belief . |
| 7 | Could you write an article for somebody in the top year of your last school , about English A Level , and what they should be able to , what they should expect ? |
| 8 | On , only the top year from each school . |
| 9 | I was in the fourth year , the top year . |
| 10 | Generally the pattern found for overall progress was repeated with a peak in performance among the 18/19 year old group and a decline with increasing age . |
| 11 | With every light year I redeem a year of my lost life . ’ |
| 12 | Well , the unit that we use there is the light year , which is the distance that light can travel in one year , and the nearest stars are about a light year away . |
| 13 | Well , the unit that we use there is the light year , which is the distance that light can travel in one year , and the nearest stars are about a light year away . |
| 14 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 15 | Now light , presumably erm one of the reasons one chooses a light year as a unit or a distance is because it 's a convenient number , but also presumably because it does n't change very much with any physical factor . |
| 16 | Politics not fiscal discipline clearly rules the US roost and in no month is this more obvious than in October , the start of the new 1990 fiscal year . |
| 17 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |
| 18 | The trick is to meet the target projected for the current fiscal year and to do this by 15 October . |
| 19 | The Chancellor is expected to modify the Government 's policy of buying in enough long-dated gilt-edged stock in a single fiscal year to offset the financial drain on the economy created by the budget surplus and foreign exchange intervention to support the pound — the so-called full funding rule . |
| 20 | It was not simply that London Films had registered a loss of £330,000 for the fiscal year 1936 . |
| 21 | Capital spending by the Resolution Trust Corporation , the federal agency charged with disposing of bankrupt S&Ls , will be $70 billion in the current fiscal year alone . |
| 22 | The recent budget agreement means that in the current fiscal year , as America moves into recession , this discretionary component of fiscal policy is tightening to the tune of 1% of GNP , almost enough to cancel out easing in the automatic component . |
| 23 | The Nickles amendment , passed by Congress last November , gave Yugoslavia until May 6th to end the repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo , on pain of losing about $5m worth of technical aid in the fiscal year 1991 . |
| 24 | The Pentagon 's procurement budget has fallen from $97 billion in 1985 to about $67 billion in the current fiscal year and further cuts are in prospect . |
| 25 | Their January payment , whatever accounting year it was based on , met their full tax liability for the ongoing fiscal year . |
| 26 | They seem to have accepted both that ( a ) some interest payments had indeed — but for the special rules — stood to escape tax ; yet ( b ) the normal January 1986 tax payment covered liability for that fiscal year ‘ including tax on interest paid after the end of a society 's accounting year ’ — which was , ‘ in a sense , to tax [ those sums ] twice ’ . |
| 27 | Analysts expect Singapore Airlines , the world 's most profitable airline , to announce a healthy net profit of just over S$800m ( $450m ) for the same fiscal year , down from S$1.2 billion the previous year but still not bad . |
| 28 | Profits have further to fall ( 17.5% in the current fiscal year , suggests S.G. Warburg ) . |
| 29 | In the fiscal year ending in March 1990 , the debt-equity ratio for TSE-listed firms was only 1.07 . |
| 30 | It received net interest and dividends in the 1990 fiscal year that accounted for more than 20% of its operating profits . |