Example sentences of "[noun pl] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean ha how can you say that killing fifteen thousand foxes a year is helping to control foxes ? |
| 2 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 3 | STAY-at-home Britons are crunching their way through £1.5 billion of savoury snacks a year , a survey reveals today . |
| 4 | Sadly , 300 kids a year die as a result of accidents in the home and hundreds of thousands more end up in hospital after some — preventable — mishap . |
| 5 | All prospective CAB voluntary advice workers will be told that they may be required to make a commitment of one to two days a week to a bureau as well as six sessions a year of in-service training after their basic training . |
| 6 | If you must , do n't have any more than 20 sessions a year , say the experts . |
| 7 | Each of the Cleveland branch 's volunteer counsellors ( three trained and three in training ) holds about 50 sessions a year . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll maybe write ten songs a year if I 'm lucky . |
| 9 | Altogether , Edward I presented on average twenty-six candidates a year to church livings , more in the years after 1290 . |
| 10 | ‘ It would appear that people are taking two trips a year instead of four and that the North Wales journeys have suffered as a result . ’ |
| 11 | Estimates of annual deaths range up to 40,000 animals a year on the high seas of the North Pacific . |
| 12 | They take in over 16,000 animals a year , ‘ nothing is ever turned away ’ , and have one of the highest re-homing rates in the country . |
| 13 | The problem is that there are 75 ridings a year and to give a wider berth would concentrate our low flying over other parts of the countryside to the detriment of the inhabitants there . |
| 14 | There are four distributions a year and these payments also include substantial royalties received by the PRS from equivalent foreign societies for the performance of PRS members ' music overseas . |
| 15 | If there is to be local inspection of 6,000 schools a year , there are several choices . |
| 16 | By using special fluorescent lights , we save the equivalent of 1,000 tonnes of coal sufficient to illuminate 40 large comprehensive schools a year . |
| 17 | Fifteen-year-olds are playing against lads a year older , the under 16s play in the under 19s , while some of the 17-year-olds have been playing in the Midland League for our reserves . |
| 18 | It consists primarily of : concentrating the construction of turbo-alternators in the new Alsthom-Atlantique group , with a production capacity of about 10000 MW per year ; concentrating all industrial resources for the fabrication of the boilers in Framatome , with a production capacity of eight units a year ; the CEA has also bought out Westinghouse 's share in Framatome 's equity so as to have complete control of the further development of the technology , the licence for which expired in 1982 . |
| 19 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 20 | The charity , Shelter , has produced various reports proposing that greater resources should be directed towards a public sector new housing programme of 100,000 units a year . |
| 21 | The firm also says it is continuing to make steady progress on Iceberg , and that it expects to enter the internal beta test portion of the programme in July or August , and hopes to ship production units a year late , in the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 22 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 23 | The Westborough , Massachusetts-based firm claimed a lead in the commercial Unix marketplace with its quad-processor Motorola Inc 88100 RISC units a year or so ago ( UX No 325 ) . |
| 24 | He said the group had expanded to supply a new housing market of 200,000 units a year at a time when activity had slumped to 135,000 units . |
| 25 | Now we produce erm about half a million or 550,000 units a year , that is not volume in world terms er we acknowledge that we compete in some of the volume sectors , but increasingly as our new products are introduced , we 're very careful to put them in discrete market segments or in niches . |
| 26 | Around 1400 tankers pass through the northern and southern Fair Isle channels a year , of which 70 per cent are connected to the Sullom Voe terminal . |
| 27 | Russia , it was widely argued , subsidised the other republics to the extent of 70 billion rubles a year . |
| 28 | In any event , production at the plant will begin in late 1991 rising to 100,000 cars a year by 1995 . |
| 29 | Part of the strategy of GM , the world 's biggest car maker , will be to increase Jaguar 's output of 50,000 cars a year by two or threefold and launch new models into the executive market . |
| 30 | Faced with the prospect of Nissan 's Washington plant in the UK training its sights on the mainland and upping exports to as much as 70 per cent of production — that 's 140,000 cars a year by 1992 — the two most powerful men in French industry locked themselves behind doors and decided then and there to up the ante in the fight against the Japanese . |