Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was named Postie of the Year yesterday , winning a £1,000 travel voucher in a competition organised by BBC Radio Two and the Royal Mail . |
| 2 | It was reported on March 1 that , although the construction of the tunnel was behind schedule , geological problems relating to the chalk seabed had now been overcome , and digging was now advancing at twice the speed of a year earlier . |
| 3 | Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead . |
| 4 | Rivingtons , Miller 's publishers , placed advertisements in the back of the 1732 Kalendar for current works : the Dictionary of the year before , the Catalogus Plantarum , John Martyn 's translation of Tournefort 's Tabulae Synopticae Officinalium and his First Lecture on a Course of Botany . |
| 5 | That must be the best part of the year ago I should think though now . |
| 6 | She usually enjoyed this part of the year immensely , but for once she was feeling quite unprepared for it . |
| 7 | Worse still , we 're now entering that part of the year when those pathetic excuses ‘ leaves on the line ’ and ‘ the wrong type of snow ’ will be trotted out to explain away timetable chaos . |
| 8 | The yellow lines mean that during that part of the year when they apply — the summer months — people attending services are not allowed to park outside the church and presumably the restrictions would apply to hearses and wedding cars as well . |
| 9 | First part of the year actually . |
| 10 | PAY RISES for managers are averaging 11 per cent , almost double the level of a year ago , and accelerating , according to research published today . |
| 11 | In the first half of 1975 , ACC output was 3½ per cent down on the level of a year earlier , and international trade was 13 per cent lower . |
| 12 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 13 | SUNDERLAND-BASED Dawn Milligan had her first open winner of the year when home-bred Woodhill Echo bounced back to form to win a high-class £1,000 open at Nottingham . |
| 14 | The VISCOUNT system itself was enlarged in the course of the year when a further three English regional library bureaux joined . |
| 15 | The case of Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was the most widely reported court case of the year where the offence of rape was the main charge . |
| 16 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 17 | Commercial clubs started to open and snooker now has an exceptionally high profile with Wattana a national hero , and Sportsman of the Year after winning the world amateur title in Sydney last November . |
| 18 | In seeking to establish the role of headhunting within the general economic environment , the survey questioned whether or not the Big Bang of October 1986 and the stock market crash of a year afterwards affected companies ' recruiting policies and usage of headhunters . |
| 19 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 20 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 21 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
| 22 | He now plays for Dallas Sidekicks and has been Dallas All-Sports athlete of the year twice . |
| 23 | The group are currently on tour and their last release Tracks in the Snow recently became the biggest local seller of the year so far . |
| 24 | THE head teacher of an embattled Edinburgh secondary has been named Scottish teacher of the year after being nominated by parents . |
| 25 | Answer guide : An overview of the year just gone and some predictions for the future . |
| 26 | It was lack of emergency cover combined with the pressures of limited time that largely dictated the period of the year when training was undertaken . |
| 27 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 28 | It is the most important meeting of the year so far as the organisation of the council is concerned . |
| 29 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 30 | There was the solid wall of a year apart standing between them , with not a loose brick in sight . |