Example sentences of "year before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than half the extra money — announced at the Conservative Party conference yesterday by David Hunt , the local government minister — will be spent in 1991/2 , the last full financial year before the election . |
| 2 | Even now , a year before the deciding vote , he does not believe that sport here understands what getting the Games would mean . |
| 3 | In the Mid-Term Wave , a year before the election , Guardian and Mirror readers were strongly Labour ; Express , Mail , and Telegraph readers were strongly Conservative . |
| 4 | The complete interior of the house could not be occupied until the final months of 1985 and the owners stayed for only one further year before the challenge of converting a local barn tempted them away ! |
| 5 | An obvious example would be a painting called Bald Eagle , made in 1955 , one year before the car accident . |
| 6 | It does now : there are already trailers in US cinemas , a year before the première . |
| 7 | With the 12 countries already in the toils of a budget renegotiation , it would mean a delay of at least a year before the ambitious plans for monetary and political union could be relaunched . |
| 8 | The growth in the provision made by Douglas-Smith and Hampden Jackson in the year before the war was endangered by the rapidly diminishing availability of part-time tutors after September 1939 . |
| 9 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 10 | One year before the Uprising another poll indicated that only 6.3 per cent of the population would accept Jordanian sovereignty even on an interim basis . |
| 11 | The date of The Film and the Public is significant — 1955 , just one year before the whole ‘ Angry Young Men ’ circus . |
| 12 | in the year before the employee 's 65th birthday , various provisions scale down the payment on a monthly basis , ie the amount is reduced by one twelfth for each month by which his or her age approaches 65 ; |
| 13 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 14 | For we lived at 77 South Portland Street , top flat , right , all the time from the age of 18 months until one year before the Second World War ( 1938 ) when I was a 23 year-old vigorous young man , ready for anything . |
| 15 | Dad died one year before the Second World War , 1938 . |
| 16 | The BBC yesterday denied his shock departure — nearly a year before the end of his contract — was linked to the flop of the Spanish set soap opera . |
| 17 | One can see him grappling with the difficulty in his poem-cum-essay ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm 's Son ’ , published in 1953 , the year before The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 18 | The period of time studied is the ten year interval from 1978 until 1988. ( 1978 was the last full year before the Conservative General Election victory in 1979 . ) |
| 19 | The French budget deficit was heading towards 6% of GDP this year before the latest austerity measures , not 3% as formerly thought . |
| 20 | Although together they made up only 8% of referrals in the year before the guidelines the reduction in barium investigation and excretion urography contributed 25% of the savings achieved in the second year . |
| 21 | Within the year before the interview 27 patients had had pulmonary arterial pressures measured directly and 23 had had total lung capacity ( helium dilution ) and gas transfer measured . |
| 22 | There is a period each year before the onset of spring when the land breathes anticipation . |
| 23 | He applied to join the OTC as a trainee infantry officer in the autumn of 1922 , a year before the date when he proposed to begin undergraduate studies . |
| 24 | This is confirmed by the only formal record of their relationship : an indenture drawn up between the two men in 1474 , but embodying an agreement made in the previous year before the king and his council . |
| 25 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 26 | On 15th February 1544 , a year before the passing of the first Act , the official Master , William Chorleton , applied for leave . |
| 27 | During 1981 — 2 , the year before the national housing benefit scheme came into operation , 1.6 million tenants gained rent rebates , a further 250,000 tenants in private property gained a rent allowance , and 3.7 million rate-payers gained rate rebates . |
| 28 | Section 4(1) ( d ) of the Act of 1914 also contained various grounds of jurisdiction , including when the debtor , ‘ has carried on business in England , personally or by means of an agent or manager ’ within a year before the presentation of the petition . |
| 29 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 30 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |