Example sentences of "[noun sg] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year , making it one of the biggest growers . |
| 2 | He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills . |
| 3 | The High Performance Fortran Forum came into force a year ago , spearheaded by research at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University in California . |
| 4 | The High Performance Fortran Forum came into force a year ago spearheaded by research at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University in California . |
| 5 | IPC authorisation came into force a year ago and initially covers large combustion plant such as boiler houses and power stations . |
| 6 | Britain 's direct marketing industry employs more than 25,000 people and generates more than £9 billion in trade and revenue a year . |
| 7 | Thousands signed a petition which saved it from closure a year ago . |
| 8 | But Aki Kaurismaki , who accounts , with his brother , for more than one-third of the Finnish film industry , makes a movie a year and has a stake in distribution , constitutes a national cinema , all by himself . |
| 9 | Where they stood , barely a mile from the aircraft 's final resting place , there was no escaping a muted collective anger — directed as much at seemingly complacent airport authorities and governments as at the perpetrators of mass murder a year ago . |
| 10 | Rolan Adams 's murder a year ago led to the speedy identification and prosecution of the attackers and the murderer subse-quently received a life sentence . |
| 11 | They charged some people with the murder a year later . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ This is the best squad we 've had since we re-formed the club a year ago , and we are hopeful of the title this time . |
| 13 | Ronnie Dunn first took the interest of the Crystal Palace management when he appeared in goal for the British Army in a thrilling 5–4 clash with their French counterparts at Selhurst Park on 23 February 1929 , and again when the Belgian Army provided the opposition a year later . |
| 14 | Upmarket shoe company Church 's is diversifying into the UK fashion accessories market following the launch of a luxury product range on the Continent a year ago . |
| 15 | The Astra range has proved to be a tremendous success , with the launch of the new model after a £200m investment a year ago . |
| 16 | The United pilots ' union had attempted unsuccessfully to finance a similar bid a year ago when the airline was trading at less than half the final sale price . |
| 17 | Punk rock almost caught the NME on the hop , despite soothsaying the ‘ phenomenon ’ in the fabled ‘ Sinking Of The Titanic ’ piece a year earlier . |
| 18 | A few days before Christmas , Eastman Kodak dumped Interactive Systems Corporation , the half that was left after SunSoft bought its piece a year ago , into the lap of the Ottawa-based integrator SHL Systemhouse Inc for an undisclosed amount of money . |
| 19 | The government has paid for the restructuring of the Villahermosa Palace to house the collection ; it is guaranteeing any short-fall in the running costs after entrance fees are collected ; it is paying $6 million rent a year , index-linked , for the collection ; it has introduced an indemnity scheme to cover the works of art , and has given the Baron and Baroness the last word on how the collection is to be administered during the ten years of the loan , at the end of which the collection is handed back , with exemption from Spain 's otherwise very restrictive art export laws . |
| 20 | Targeted revenues could top four billion pounds a year and provide a war chest for good causes such as sport and arts , the treasury 's cut will be twelve percent of proceeds , leaving a honey pot of six hundred million pounds of turnover a year for the operator . |
| 21 | Police believe he was set up by Jim Craig , who ran the UDA 's multi-million pound a year extortion rackets . |
| 22 | Er it 's thirty six pound a year to be a member there but if you are a keen sportsman their facilities are well worth using because it 's a very very good sports centre indeed . |
| 23 | So er just beware of what you 're doing when you , when you , course you can actually keep a mortgage a a account open , in other words you can keep it open on a pound a year whatever it is with the Halifax . |
| 24 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 25 | Seven thousand pound a year . |
| 26 | That 's right and er at that year , that er time , we had a drop of five shillings a week and he had an increase of fifty pound a year . |
| 27 | Course they got away with income tax out of that because they were n't , they were n't much erm to do with income tax that time , I mean my tax at that time of the year was about , at that time was about four pound a year when I was erm , when I was working and you only paid income tax once a year . |
| 28 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 29 | Directors , they 've signed one off sick , from British , er Vicker 's shipyard , and give him sixty thousand pound a year directorship . |
| 30 | Now , in regards about that , what I do n't understand , people who live in sheltered accommodation , some pay five pound a year , some pay nothing . |