Example sentences of "year the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |
| 2 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 3 | In October of that year the AR regretted that nearly all competition entries had evaded the key problem and had signally failed ‘ to achieve the genuine pub atmosphere ’ . |
| 4 | Last year the government introduced a number of tax concessions to bring private capital and expertise into the hotel and tourism sectors . |
| 5 | Last year the company saw pre-tax profits of £1.9m . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During the second term of that academic year the knives were drawn . |
| 8 | This year the show includes the National Kelsae Onion festival and terrific nursery exhibits . |
| 9 | Last year the pests were replaced by harmless , pretty creatures who loved my city oasis of colour and scent . |
| 10 | Last year the judges debated at length how to mark entries that did not follow the drawings to the letter , but showed evidence of good economical production turning techniques . |
| 11 | Before that , however , in 1958 , the year the Albion brewery celebrated its 150th anniversary , Mann Crossman and Paulin had been taken over by Watney 's . |
| 12 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Every year the Indian newspapers chart Siberian crane sightings with the devotion and enthusiasm the British press usually only musters at times of royal births . |
| 15 | Until last year the accounting systems were largely used as a means of record , not for planning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Terence Chute , the chairman , explained that over the past year the company has invested over £11m in revenue producing equipment , with existing operations being upgraded and new subsidiaries launched . |
| 18 | Earlier this year the IBA suggested that arts programmes , local and national , could consider sponsorship and many are doing so . |
| 19 | In May last year the Court of Appeal upheld a judgment against the friend for more than £5,500 damages for negligence because he had owed the accountant a duty of care . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The EC ministers have been told that if they can not agree voluntarily on measures to ensure the harmonisation of the telecommunications industy some time early next year the European Commission will force them to do so . |
| 22 | According to the latest traffic forecasts in the consortium 's interim report projected revenue in 1993 , the year the tunnel opens , will be just under £580m — the same figure as forecast last year . |
| 23 | In September last year the couple 's convictions were quashed . |
| 24 | Last year the 8,500 workers in body and assembly produced just under 200,000 cars . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Last year the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and the Association of Social Research Organisations set up the Social Science Forum ( SSF ) to campaign on issues that were affecting social scientists . |
| 27 | At one time this year the shares touched 664p . |
| 28 | Last year the Republic refused to extradite Mr Ryan to Britain to face terrorism charges , including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions , on the grounds that allegations in the Press and Parliament linking him with the IRA meant he would not receive a fair trial in Britain . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Throughout the year the anxieties of the Party were focused on local workers and soldiers rather than on the surrounding sea of peasants . |