Example sentences of "[noun] this year " in BNC.

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1 At Beechgrove we have a well-established standard fuchsia , ‘ Dollar Princess ’ , with cerise sepals and a deep purple corolla , but Bill has done well in training a few new standards this summer and intends to give them early protection this year .
2 The interest in CalMac is disproportionate to the size of its business ( 850 employees ) , the number of its customers ( mainly 29,370 inhabitants of the Western Isles , plus tourists ) or the amount of money it costs the exchequer : the company received a grant this year of £7.2m ( $12.7m ) , much the same as previous years .
3 Faldo has suffered a final round jinx this year and it would have finished in disaster had Norman 's putt fallen .
4 While Farr-Jones will be wearing the gold Australian jumper this year , it seems certain that flanker Simon Poidevin will be missing .
5 Dundalk , who have also experienced a poor start to the season , have made significant changes in personnel this year .
6 Dundalk , who have also experienced a poor start to the season , have made significant changes in personnel this year .
7 ‘ A place with corners that resemble the Third World ’ was his verdict this year on the city 's mixture of new private affluence and public squalor , its Mafia-like interest groups and its grotesque inefficiencies .
8 I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes .
9 Dad decided that we are not going to Saltcoats this year because of the weather .
10 The proposed deal would be modelled on a settlement this year for 130,000 NHS administrative and clerical staff .
11 The proposed deal would be modelled on a settlement this year for 130,000 NHS administrative and clerical staff .
12 The idea would be modelled on a settlement this year for 130,000 NHS administrative and clerical staff .
13 He will know that the health service has an excellent settlement this year , with an additional £2.2 billion for the regions — an increase of 8.9 per cent. , or 4.2 per cent .
14 Just like every other political story this year , in fact .
15 another Central South success story this year has been the form of Gloucestershire racing trainer David Nicholson … yesterday he opened his new stables at Ford for the very first time and racing folk turned up in their thousands
16 VAUXHALL defied the recession this year by breaking production records .
17 The institute has stuck to its November forecast that the economy will pull out of recession this year , with growth set to reach 2 per cent , although it could fall below 1 per cent or top 3 per cent , given the margin of error involved .
18 Consumer spending has been driving the economy out of recession this year , but the recovery is patchy and the Chancellor will scrutinise the last detail of every economic statistic in the next month , before he decides whether he can risk raising taxes on November the Thirtieth .
19 DEC veteran Dominic LaCava is president , and a further eight to 12 staff should come on board this year .
20 DEC veteran Dominic LaCava is president , and a further eight to 12 staff should come on board this year .
21 Sir David Nicholson retires from the Board this year and we thank him for his contribution to the Group over the past nine years .
22 I do n't remember it being that much last year , but she 's using a different board this year so maybe that 's something to do with it .
23 But that was not the case this year . ’
24 I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification .
25 Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included .
26 Oh in that case this year I would n't mention it if I was you , you might get away with it .
27 The remarkable quality of the New Hall collection , a voluntary assembly of donated works , and the likewise extraordinary disproportion of successful women artists in the final selection of the New Contemporaries this year seem to me to point to a crucial shift that is happening in symbolic utterance and representation : women 's bodies , women 's nature have long been ‘ good to think with ’ , their flesh has served artists as founts of meaning , allegorical and personal .
28 That direction this year is political .
29 Q THIS year some of the buds on my clematis , Comtesse de Bouchard , have either dried up or produced very small flowers .
30 Choosing a winner in this category this year was more difficult than ever .
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