Sentence examples for year in making from inspiring English sources

"The Florida ballot measure is the first salvo of the year in making property rights and anti-tax issues a part of the 2008 conversation," Oliver Griswold, a spokesman for the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center in Washington, told Stateline.org.The Florida proposal would give businesses a $25,000 tax exemption, increase an exemption for homeowners and allow more flexibility to transfer tax breaks.

Mr. Myers, who is president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington group that has taken a lead in promoting the legislation, added, "I think that 2009 has the potential to be the most historic year in making progress on tobacco at the federal level since the first surgeon general's report in 1964".

The private German group, controlled by its founding family and a trust, said it was investing €2bn a year in making cars safer, cleaner and more economical while it spent €3.1bn or 7.4% of its €41.5bn sales last year on research and development.

PCB's, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were used for years in making electrical components.

Some communities have developed traditional skills, dating back thousands of years, in making irrigation reservoirs.

"He had a great year last year in making all four finals.

McIlroy's breakthrough has been a year in the making.

Apparently, it was a year in the making.

The suit was almost a year in the making.

The report had been a year in the making.

It had been a year in the making.