Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] year [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The circular gave an expression to a motion passed in the House of Commons in January of that year when the House , ‘ conscious of the need to raise educational standards at all levels ’ , regretted the separation of children into different types of secondary schools .
2 Feelings ran high but it was n't like the drama of last year when the government were forced into a humiliating review of their pit closure programme .
3 If pay settlements in the private sector continue to decelerate to 2 per cent and the underlying rate of inflation edges up to around 3.75 per cent by the end of this year when the effects of cheaper mortgages start working their way out of consumer budgets , there is little doubt that many individuals will find their real disposable incomes squeezed .
4 The conference of 1944 had to be postponed owing to the difficulties of travel , which were imposed in the spring and summer of that year when the Allied invasion forces used Britain as their base for the ‘ reentry ’ into France : it was finally held in December .
5 He writes from the perspective of later years when the dons of Magdalen were anything but congenial society to him .
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