Example sentences of "[adj] year the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 2 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |
| 3 | This year the festival brings you the chance to see a wide and varied selection of the films which will be remembered as the highlights of cinema in 1991 . |
| 4 | This year the show includes the National Kelsae Onion festival and terrific nursery exhibits . |
| 5 | We might begin to think so if we reflected that in parlour games the rules never change , and then noticed that this year the most accomplished of our poets in their forties published , sixty years after Pound 's Lustra and Eliot 's Prufrock , an ambitious poem in the shape of fifteen interlinked pentameter sonnets . |
| 6 | In July of this year the Taiyo Kobe Bank agreed to buy a 5 per cent stake in Credito Commerciale , a merchant banking subsidiary of the 500-year-old Monte dei Paschi di Siena . |
| 7 | Earlier this year the IBA suggested that arts programmes , local and national , could consider sponsorship and many are doing so . |
| 8 | This year the British contingent looks set to retain the title ( won by a Devon man , Will Cox last year ) unless the late Russian entry ( a red hot favourite with some observers ) proves a dark horse with his chestnut . |
| 9 | This year the excitement has centred on the 23.7 per cent shareholding which Elders , the Australian group , has to cut to 9.9 per cent . |
| 10 | At one time this year the shares touched 664p . |
| 11 | This year the event has become positively altruistic , offering debate and charity as well as a party at the Design Museum open to all-comers . |
| 12 | This year The Council of British Service and Ex-Service Organisations ( COBSEO ) endorsed the major proposals made by Sir Greville Spratt in his Report of July 1989 that still closer co-operation and mutual aid is needed in all aspects of benevolent work . |
| 13 | This year the Autumn meeting of the European Area was held in Athens where , at a simple but moving ceremony , a memorial was unveiled to commemorate all those Greek and RAF aircrew who lost their lives during the battle for Greece . |
| 14 | In April this year the Association helped with a USAFE Band Tour , providing standard bearers and ATC Cadets and members to sell programmes and make collections . |
| 15 | Earlier this year the Branch decided to make very substantial donations to the RAF Benevolent Fund and to Richard Peck House . |
| 16 | This year the Treasury rumour mill has been working overtime . |
| 17 | This year the Church celebrates the centenary of the society of St Peter Apostle , the SPA . |
| 18 | This year the 44th Eucharistic Congress will be held in Korea from 5th to 8th October . |
| 19 | Last year Rover took on 30 apprentices at Swindon and this year the figure will be 64 . |
| 20 | This year the Wiltshire County Council has closed Larkhill Track , an old drove road near the stones where many travellers park their vans . |
| 21 | Two Ryder Cup matches were won outright , another halved ; the Curtis Cup team went to Hutchinson , Kansas in 1986 and won , and defended successfully at Royal St George 's , while in August of this year the Walker Cup team , quite improbably , went to Atlanta and won the Walker Cup . |
| 22 | Beginning this year the water-flow into the park will try to mimic nature . |
| 23 | This year the minister of agriculture was said to have ruined the tomato crop by importing sterile seeds from Israel — because ( rumour had it ) his grandfather was Jewish . |
| 24 | Earlier this year the World Food Programme was reckoning that some 5m people were at risk of famine in the north of the country ; if so , some 1.2m tonnes of grain would be needed to feed them , of which a bit over half has been pledged by donors . |
| 25 | This year the American PC market is forecast to grow by less than 10% , a far cry from the 20% annual growth that computer makers are used to . |
| 26 | Later this year the party will hold a congress , only the fourth Mr Castro has convened in three decades . |
| 27 | But this year the jackets — a classic item for the past two winters — are affordable . |
| 28 | But this year the condition of the soil is on our side . |
| 29 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 30 | This year the tee is 15 yards further back , which may preclude a repetition , though no trees have been planted , as was hinted , to prevent the feat . |