Example sentences of "this year [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the climate of controversy , the Jeu de Paume team , which also includes the curators Catherine David , Danièle Hibon and Dominique Abensour , has this year adopted an even more unequivocal stance . |
| 2 | A number of loyalist figures have appeared before the courts already this year charged with making threats and demanding cash from businessmen . |
| 3 | He also competes for Toyota in the Japanese sports car series and earlier this year headed their team in the Le Mans 24-hour race . |
| 4 | Five past pupils had this year obtained first-class Honours degrees , an achievement performed only once before , in 1950 . |
| 5 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 6 | Metal seal lids for semiconductor packages and sputtering targets produced by our electronic materials business in Spokane , USA , have this year achieved increased market share . |
| 7 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
| 8 | THE recruitment and image crisis facing British industry was cruelly exposed yesterday by a report which revealed that two out of three university engineering students graduating this year decided against a career in engineering . |
| 9 | THE recruitment and image crisis facing British industry was cruelly exposed yesterday by a report which revealed that two out of three university engineering students graduating this year decided against a career in engineering . |
| 10 | I am sitting opposite the Baroness — who was acquitted in August 1989 of the murder of her ex-husband Simon Dale , and in April this year sentenced to seven years imprisonment for forging the will of her elderly aunt , Lady Illingworth , and for stealing more than £500,000 from her — in the visitors ' room at Askham Grange prison , outside York . |
| 11 | InformationWeek quotes Taligent Inc chief executive Joe Guglielmi as saying his folks have a version of its object-oriented operating system up and running on an Apple Computer Inc Macintosh Quadra : Taligent , which intends publishing specifications this year followed by a developer 's kit , has also written some low-level applications for the system along the lines of Apple 's MacDraw — but the final system is not due until 1995 . |
| 12 | Green Shopping Day ( this year called Green Consumer Day , and roping in interests as diverse as supermarkets , townswomen 's guilds and environmental groups ) was a thing entirely of SustainAbility 's own devising ; Hailes and Elkington had Lynne Franks PR working on the publicity , and some of their participating organisations — which ranged from Safeway to the World Wildlife Fund — paying for it . |
| 13 | Significantly , instances of people committing the criminal offence of being ‘ drunk and incapable ’ in Glasgow 's streets have fallen slightly so far this year compared to last . |
| 14 | This has n't grown so well this year compared to previous summers , probably because of the lack of really bright sunshine . |
| 15 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 16 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 17 | The HC line complements the Organiser at the high end of the market , and generated £2.6m turnover this year compared with £900,000 in 1991 . |
| 18 | Although discontinued operations lost £1.1m this year compared with £400,000 last year , Hunting did acquire the business of Interlock Technologies Corp and 80% of Marine Contractor Services Inc for £5.1m . |
| 19 | Tobacco sales were down 7.6 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and 9.6 percent in the second three months . |
| 20 | this year compared with last year . |
| 21 | Almost 90% of UK instalment credit accounts were fully up-to-date in the first three months of this year compared with 89.4% in the corresponding period in 1992 . |
| 22 | Company profits are now expected to be level this year compared with a near 2 per cent fall last November , but next year 's improvement has been cut from 4.4 per cent to 2.9 per cent . |
| 23 | I mean holiday prices were , were sort of scheduled to go up this year compared to last year 's , probably sort of eight , nine , ten per cent . |
| 24 | I think there 's been a bit of improvement this year compared to last . |
| 25 | The association , which has raised over $1 million towards the restoration of French and American buildings and other monuments , has this year awarded its main prize to the restorers of the château de Clairvaux in the Vienne region of France . |
| 26 | Notoriously strong , due to enforced national service , and generously funded for the same reason , French Army sides of the past have launched international careers like that of Eric Vergniol , who this year switched to rugby union . |
| 27 | Leading on from that , we fixed a meeting for this year aimed at getting to know each other better and looking at how to prepare together the ecumenical service . |
| 28 | Nicholas , now starring in series like Only Fools And Horses and The Piglet Files , was this year nominated for a BAFTA Best Actor Award — while Andrew seems to have disappeared from our TV screens altogether . |
| 29 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 30 | Two more annuals which get hardier by the year are Playfair ( Queen Anne Press , £2.99 ) truly pocket-sized and a marvellous source of instant information , and The Cricketers Who 's Who ( Lennard Publishing , £10.95 ) which has this year restored the first-class umpires and whose unique feature is a photograph of every player . |