Example sentences of "[vb past] each year " in BNC.

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1 Most of the 2.2 billion pet-food cans sold each year are made from steel coated with tin .
2 The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now .
3 It replaces the present system , where appeals are dealt with by the Department , with less than 10 made each year .
4 AS WE reported at the beginning of September , an increase in the fixed price agreed each year between Champagne 's growers and merchants seemed inevitable , putting further pressure on prices that are already affected by rising demand .
5 Private cars guzzle about 7% of the world 's commercial ( non-industrial ) energy or 17% of the oil used each year .
6 The government has , however , announced plans to introduce energy efficiency measures to reduce the amount of coal used each year by around 300 million tonnes .
7 Hence the portentous , and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum .
8 Around a million kitchens are purchased or upgraded each year in Great Britain .
9 Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 .
10 Over a quarter of all accidents reported each year to the HSE and local authorities are associated with manual handling at work .
11 They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s .
12 Estimates of the number of deaths among men caused each year by alcohol abuse range from 8,000 to 25,000
13 New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States .
14 In the mid-1820s the total number of despatches sent and received each year by the foreign office was about 12,000 .
15 There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 .
16 Hargreaves mounted each year a series of exhibitions , mainly of young artists , but also including two important shows by Clough and Vaughan .
17 The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Annual Report ( 1986 ) in the UK quotes that there are 5700 deaths and 3 million people injured each year in home accidents at an annual cost to the NHS of about £350 million .
18 The DTI has been criticised for underestimating the number of children injured each year by fireworks .
19 It is launching an experimental scheme to turn some of the 2,000 tonnes of notes disposed each year into garden compost in collaboration with the Botanic Centre in Middlesborough .
20 The 130,000 tonnes of litter consumed each year has about half the calorific value of coal .
21 The report alleges that mining and smelting use up 10 per cent of all energy consumed each year .
22 In addition to court rolls the family historian may come across rentals which give the names of tenants and the rents that they paid each year at Ladyday ( 25 March ) and Michaelmas ( 29 September ) .
23 If you can not afford to invest the maximum allowed each year or would rather make regular monthly savings than invest in lump sums , you can put by as little as £10 per month .
24 By 1975 , over 100 tonnes of porpoise meat was being sold in Peruvian fish markets , amounting to at least 2000 animals killed each year .
25 Nobody suspected that a significant proportion of the small population was being caught and killed each year in fishing nets .
26 THE programme of guided summer walks arranged each year by Hampshire County Council gets into its stride on May 1st .
27 The project makes use of previously unpublished data collected each year by the Department of Employment ( Economic Development in Northern Ireland ) for the New Earnings Survey .
28 The festival began each year with a parade of the competitors through the village , led by the Captain and past Captains of the Society .
29 The indicator here was simply the amount spent each year on repairs in each school .
30 The amounts of money involved , however , pale into insignificance when compared with the vast sums spent each year on older areas such as ‘ big physics ’ .
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