Example sentences of "[art] previous year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homicides reached 23,000 in 1990 , an increase of 15 per cent on the previous year . |
| 2 | They had in fact used material gathered by him , and some of his reflections of the sanctity of marriage , in their pastoral letter on marriage in the previous year . |
| 3 | Foreign exchange earnings in 1988 were IR£841m up from IR£731m in the previous year . |
| 4 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 5 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 6 | The bustle at London termini to load newspaper trains ended in july when BR terminated the contracts remaining after the previous year 's transfer to road by News International and the Mirror Group . |
| 7 | The first indications of the new 1979 Conservative Government 's attitude to investment became apparent when BR sought approval to build an additional seven HST sets to cope with the first flush of growth following the launch of 125mph services on the East Coast main line the previous year . |
| 8 | In North Queensferry Quarry , George MacIntyre led Nearly An Angel , E3 6a , having briefly inspected the line the previous year . |
| 9 | In 1990 nearly a million homes were burgled , almost 20% up on the previous year . |
| 10 | But the most vicious discriminiation had come in the previous year , from Edmund Wilson , who applauded the structure of The Waste Land by contrasting it to ‘ the extremely ill-focused Eight Cantos of his imitator Mr Ezra Pound , who presents only a bewildering mosaic with no central emotion to provide a key ’ . |
| 11 | Last month Pearl announced pre-tax profits for the six months ending 30 June of £31.1m , an increase of 8 per cent on the previous year . |
| 12 | Mount 's , who won at Rosslyn Park the previous year , seem certain to enjoy a profitable season . |
| 13 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 14 | Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year . |
| 15 | TSW-TELEVISION South West reported taxable profits of £3.19m for the year to 31 July , compared with £3m in the previous year . |
| 16 | Figures for the year ended 31 March 1989 , due to be published at the end of the year , show an overall 8 per cent drop in the use of the ‘ green form ’ initial advice and assistance scheme , as compared with an overall increase the previous year of 10 per cent . |
| 17 | ‘ Green form ’ advice for consumer problems was 16 per cent down on the previous year . |
| 18 | The previous year , a more credible figure had been achieved without the need of a formal agreement at all . |
| 19 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 20 | Denmark has made cuts in employment and sickness benefits and France required hospital patients to contribute towards non-medical services and uprated welfare benefits in line with current inflation rather than the higher level of the previous year . |
| 21 | Norwegian television had followed the big race the previous year and about 100 kilometres from its end had stopped the leader to interview him . |
| 22 | In the tent that night we eat smoked trout and Odd-Knut tells us that the previous year there was a fight on his team and after it was over and the dogs were moving again he saw blood on the snow . |
| 23 | On one level My Dress … is a coda to Self-Portrait on the Borderline ( 1932 ) ( Fig. 11 ) of the previous year . |
| 24 | That was the same year in which the first of the classic Austin-Healey line , the four cylinder 100–4 went into production , having been adopted by Austin from a Healey design shown at the previous year 's show . |
| 25 | Berlin room rates soared by 26% in 1990 and occupancy rates jumped by 9.5 percentage points over the previous year to 80.95% . |
| 26 | The investment by 3i represented a 73% increase over the previous year , which ended at 31 March 1990 . |
| 27 | The loss compares with a profit of £1.2m the previous year . |
| 28 | In the six months to 25 April , the company recorded a loss of I£509,000 ( £461,000 ) , a turnaround from a pre-tax profit of I£362,000 ( £336,000 ) in the previous year . |
| 29 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |
| 30 | Arrears in 1988/9 increased by a third over the previous year to more than £450 million . |