Hogy is van pontosan az angolban a prepozíció a this, next, that stb. előtt?

Az alábbi esetben például?

I started watching comedy movies in 2004 because I saw my first comedy movie (in) that year.

"They still received £34,000 in that year." - The Guardian

"I cannot compose now," he wrote in that year." - The Guardian

Wordhippóról cikkrészletek:

"Prior to his assassination, he had proclaimed that Guinea-Bissau would declare its independence from Portugal in that year."

"It was in that year that the original quartz clock was invented by W.A. Marrison and J.W. Horton."

"They were all drafted by the NBA in that year." - Huffington Post

Irodalmi példák, a wordhippóról szedtem:

"On June 4, in that year, she paid the ground rent for the last time."

"On the 18th August in that year a total eclipse was visible in India."

"I recall nothing read in that year in Europe which moved me, and I think I read very little, except the local histories of the Tuscan cities which I afterwards wrote of."

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