Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | One image sticks in my mind from Brands Hatch that year , a race at which Ronnie , who was then lying just about level with Mario , had taken a notable pole position . |
| 2 | These ten men change each year . |
| 3 | Repeat each year . |
| 4 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |
| 5 | The report should have said ‘ if war permits ’ for , by October 1915 when the Annual General Meeting was reported in the Standard it was only the third press account that year and it indicated the Club was in dire straits . |
| 6 | The walk combines a fun day out with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 7 | The sponsored walk combines a fun day out for all of the family ( especially the four-legged members ! ) with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 8 | One hundred and eighteen patients were studied — 61 with gastric ulcer ( 41 men and 20 women , age range 19–82 years , mean 56.5 years ) and 57 with duodenal ulcer ( 35 men and 22 women , age range 18–85 years , mean 45.8 years ) . |
| 9 | ( The highspot for the 600,000 fans who flock each year to the Graceland mansion shrine is the famous jungle room , where their idol used to watch three televised football games at once ) . |
| 10 | Duration of symptoms was at least one year in every patient ( mean 3.7 years ) . |
| 11 | It looks like they 'll make 150 million pounds profit this year . |
| 12 | Another six families are thought to be suing the baby drinks firm this year because of its effect on their children 's teeth . |
| 13 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 14 | Yes , yes , I mean this year , with the formula obviously , because the number of fire calls has dropped , it impacts upon er , as I say that , I do n't know whether the actual , the cost , the differential between the number of calls that have dropped and the drop in the S S A , whether it 's comparable , and I do n't suppose they 've got a measure of the drop , in S S A terms it 's far greater than the actual marginal costs of er , not attending those er , extra , extra fire calls . |
| 15 | But he said they 've just I mean this year the whole orchard . |
| 16 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 17 | CHRISTMAS came early at Fleetwood Branch this year ! |
| 18 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
| 19 | It was called ‘ Belfast Rocks Again ’ and , despite losing money , was successful enough to merit a repeat this year . |
| 20 | But if the snow-wreaths of the Ob river do n't reach Bharatpur this year , I shall feel inescapably sad . |
| 21 | Absent this year is the rich range of June drawings exhibitions timed to distract buyers from the major auction houses ' summer sales , leaving only Bellinger 's , and , in early July , Flavia Ormond 's . |
| 22 | One hundred and eighteen patients were studied — 61 with gastric ulcer ( 41 men and 20 women , age range 19–82 years , mean 56.5 years ) and 57 with duodenal ulcer ( 35 men and 22 women , age range 18–85 years , mean 45.8 years ) . |
| 23 | It is tax , tax , and tax again : tax this year , tax next year , and tax even more the year after . ’ |
| 24 | I expect you know he has no love for you … your reneging on the Munich contract some years ago meant several of his singers lost work . |
| 25 | Growers are expecting a bumper apple harvest this year , so they 'll be able to supply the extra 200 tons of apples a day Bulmers want . |
| 26 | They are very few compared with the many thousands of monochrome illustrations which appear each year . |
| 27 | organizes the games to be built and with a team of three — and — is responsible for the amazing new constructions which appear each year . |
| 28 | The 5th Issue index-linked certificates , also tax-exempt , pay the accumulated increase in the Retail Prices Index each year plus 4.5 p.c. if held for five years . |
| 29 | also said that when that person , if she married somebody , say fifty years older than her , that they died and did n't leave her to pay . |
| 30 | The fact that attendance figures grow each year is testament to Newbury 's deserved popularity . |