By the end of last year the railway___.
The company has suffered from several years of bad __________.
The third month of the year is _______.
The weather is ___________at this time of year than in the spring.
This year, the United Nations observes the International Year of _____________________________.
This year, the number of accidents has_______that of last year.
The employees of the company have got much_______income this year than they did last year.
Before the Anglo-Saxons settlements and the Roman invasions, the habitants of Britain were _______.
13. We Chinese ___ _____ the Spring Festival as the beginning of a year.
Before the rise of mass communication in the Western world, ____________ appealed to more readers.
The number of _________in our city has increased yearly.
_____ had been used in the front of costumes for several thousand years before the Ming dynasty.
I caught a __________ of the bus before it disappeared around the corner.
The title of the 35th Nurse of the Year was granted to Miss Helen Taylor, who had devoted herself ______ nursing for forty years.
December is the ___ month of a December is the ___ month of a year
The International Day of Disabled Persons is observed on the_______of December every year.
Larry Griffin was woken at three that morning to be told that his last-minute_____against his death sentence for the murder of Quintin Moss, 15 years before, had been unsuccessful.
She told me she ____ the Party two years before.
The Congress of the United States is composed of two parts, namely, ______, enjoying a two-year term, and______, a six-year term.
Before ordering their dinner, they considered the_________merits of chicken and roast
He ______the manuscript. of his book before sending it to the publisher.
Before he started work, I asked the builder to give me an ________ of the cost of repairing the roof.
It didn't take long before I lost_______of the plane.
As I__________, my son learned to speak English fluently before the school year was over.