Example sentences of "year 's [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | GAME players still reeling from this year 's wealth of super graphics and intricate formats had better recharge their batteries now — 1993 is going to be even more of a challenge . |
| 2 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 3 | The Merseyside Development Corporation says it hopes the bridge will ease congestion in the area during the tourist season particularly during next year 's Battle of the Atlantic 50th anniversary celebrations . |
| 4 | Any difference between the current year 's translation of opening balances and the amounts dealt with in the previous year 's consolidation may be taken to or from general reserve ; income and expenditure accounts may be translated at average rates for the financial year . |
| 5 | Mr. Roberts : I can certainly confirm that there has been a considerable increase in the number of applications for section 4 assistance from 1980–81 when there were 160 applications to the current year 's forecast of 224 applications . |
| 6 | This was over 500 fewer opioid users than was found during the previous year 's survey of ten agencies , and there is still a reduction in numbers of 375 if we compare the figures obtained from the five agencies contacted in both surveys . |
| 7 | The year 's resurgence of interest in travesties of middle-aged women , all ugly , strident and terminally randy , boucing around alongside girls in doublets and hose or whatever , intent on making respectful love to sugary heroines in lacy crinolines , has always seemed to me extraordinary . |
| 8 | After all we are only half way through this year 's Charity of the Year programme and there is still a long way to go if we are to raise enough to fully fund the training of a Macmillan Nurse . |
| 9 | While this year 's run of four successive defeats does not ring true , they also possess some senior citizens who relish upsetting preconceived ideas . |
| 10 | Allan Stewart , the local government minister for Scotland , described next year 's settlement of just over £5 billion as fair and reasonable . |
| 11 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 12 | This year 's Pub of the Year award went to the Bear at Crickhowell in Powys . |
| 13 | For the long term benefits of the ‘ loyalty share bonus ’ together with a first year 's yield of around 20 per cent makes the investment an attractive income stock . |
| 14 | The cost would probably be about one year 's salary of such an assistant , but it does not recur . |
| 15 | Deep space explorers , ambience chasers and unlikely pop stars , THE ORB are the soundtrack to this year 's vision of the future . |
| 16 | Rick tried to ensure their involvement by inviting each of them to contribute one unit of activities to the year 's scheme of work . |
| 17 | First fruits and tenths , which had previously gone to Rome , came after 1534 to the King : he received a tenth of the annual revenue of every clerical benefice and a sum equivalent to the whole of the first year 's income of every newly appointed bishop . |
| 18 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 19 | So says the Nottinghamshire branch of the British Association of Social Workers in the latest move against last year 's reintroduction of the cane in Nottinghamshire 's community homes with education . |
| 20 | Few believed the Chancellor would announce any reduction in corporation tax or any increase on last year 's reintroduction of first-year investment allowances at 40 per cent . |
| 21 | This year 's chairman of the Pimlico Connection , Giancarlo Marcheselli , was curious to know what teaching would be like , and thought it would be a way of doing something useful to complement the years as a student ‘ where everything you do is for yourself ’ . |
| 22 | His motion is backed by Lionel Randall , last year 's chairman of the council . |
| 23 | Then lie suggested that they might get Arthur Pugh , the moderate leader of the steelworkers who was that year 's chairman of the TUC , to come down to Chequers for tea and an exploratory talk . |
| 24 | First over the line was the Kazakhstan rider Alexandre Nadobenko last year 's King of the Mountains winner who finished ahead of South Africa 's Gary Beneke , British amateur John Charlesworth and Norway 's Ole Simensen , respectively . |
| 25 | For those searching for a short break that is just that little bit different , you are invited to make your selection for this year 's choice of special themed weekend breaks . |
| 26 | Electrabel describes last year 's performance of the Belgian nuclear park as ‘ excellent ’ with the two plants achieving a high utilisation factor of 86% . |
| 27 | Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year . |
| 28 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 29 | From 10 November until 6 January Galerie der Spiegel will launch a homage to this year 's winner of the best gallery award made by the Federal Association of German art dealers each year during Art Cologne ( from 12 to 18 November ) . |
| 30 | This year 's winner of the Director 's Prize was Mr Barry Grewcock . |