Example sentences of "[art] [adj] time [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 2 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 3 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 4 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 5 | Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 6 | A REBEL priest who defies church law by marrying divorced Catholics is to conduct a wedding in Edinburgh for the first time next year . |
| 7 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 8 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 9 | Just 33,000 cars were registered in July — and only 13,000 by private motorists — a drop of eight per cent on the same time last year . |
| 10 | Total at the same time last year was £269.40 . |
| 11 | The amount of money donated to the Village Association through the envelopes is less than at the same time last year . |
| 12 | Total at the same time last year was £269.40 . |
| 13 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 14 | ‘ Demand has been increasing steadily since November and we 're now dealing with twice the number of applications compared to the same time last year . |
| 15 | I suspect they 're better at this stage than the same time last year . |
| 16 | So far this year , drugs officers have made more than 130 seizures — twice the figure for the same time last year . |
| 17 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
| 18 | At the same time last year , only 17.1pc of the community charge had been paid . |
| 19 | At the same time last year , only 17.1% of the poll tax had been paid . |
| 20 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 21 | The Halifax says that in September the average price of a house in this country was up by one percent on the same time last year . |
| 22 | Half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £119 million in the red compared with £191 million in profit at the same time last year . |
| 23 | Last winter 's storm damage pay-outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , threatening to push up house cover premiums ; half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £190,000,000 in the red , compared with 191,000,000 in profit at the same time last year . |
| 24 | He said he forgot to put in his letter that your hero , Steve Donaghue , won the Derby for the third time last year but you probably knew that ages ago . |
| 25 | The firm , which specialised in commercial brochures , had a shaky time last year and staff agreed then on a pay cut . |
| 26 | Robbie Warner , who led the championship for a short time last year and Geoff Baker exchanged paintwork , during their last encounter and with Baker 's team-mate ‘ Taffy' Gillingham unlikely to stand back and watch , it could be an entertaining afternoon of contact motor sport , all sponsored by BBC Radio Suffolk . |
| 27 | Uralmash had a difficult time last year . |
| 28 | Looking at the team — Lukic had an awful time last year , was as bad as when we got relegated . |