Example sentences of "half [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost half a million visitors a year come to wander round the grounds or float past in punts on the River Cherwell . |
| 2 | I write as chairman of Connoisseurs Scotland , the association of top Scottish hotels whose members provide something close to half a million bed-nights a year . |
| 3 | Two workshops for the disabled could be closed to save a council nearly half a million pounds a year . |
| 4 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |
| 5 | It 's selling half a million snails every year , and they 're becoming so widely accepted as a food that they 're even being sold on the supermarket shelves . |
| 6 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 7 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |
| 8 | That 's half a billion pounds every year . |
| 9 | Higher excise duty accounts for most of the difference , stores like Tesco reckon it 's losing them sales of half a billion pounds a year . |
| 10 | In an attempt to prevent any further loss of the country 's mangroves , Ecuadorian environmentalists are calling for strict control over the expansion of shrimp farming , a key export industry which earns Ecuador half a billion dollars a year in foreign exchange . |