Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 2 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 3 | Even though he has pushed through legislation to outlaw the ‘ sow pen ’ the government is allowing eight years for it to be passed out . |
| 4 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |
| 5 | There are over 55,000 reported case of food poisoning each year , but because many cases go unreported , experts believe the real figure could be 100 times greater . |
| 6 | It specialises in building oak framed houses using 500 year old methods . |
| 7 | According to the World Health Organization , three million people worldwide will suffer from acute pesticide poisoning this year and 20,000 will die . |
| 8 | Although they are not competing this year , Tatra trucks are usually among the first home in the gruelling Paris-Dakar rally . |
| 9 | Dorothy Tyson has been made churchwarden emeritus of St Nicholas 's Church , North Grimston near Malton , after completing 30 years as warden . |
| 10 | What was encouraging this year was that the overall calibre of entries far-outstripped last year 's submissions . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a new expression for YT that trainees are using this year — they 're calling it Slave Training , ’ said Mr Hanson . |
| 12 | But the tide must have turned when even a big commercial panto like this at the Manchester Palace — one of 21 that Paul Elliott is producing this year — rediscovers its roots in traditional storytelling . |
| 13 | Tied in with encouraging half year figures , Headland announced a £11m acquisition and its shares were temporarily suspended while an offer document is printed . |
| 14 | The TCCB , who are financing this year 's competition , have decided that no trophy will be awarded to the winners of the Sunday League . |
| 15 | ‘ I have done a fair bit of business travelling to meetings in London , ’ said Mr Pilkington , who seizes the opportunity for more practice on train journeys appropriately since BR is sponsoring this year 's Times championship . |
| 16 | Then the teams set off for home bringing this year 's Beaujolais Nouveau by the shortage mileage from Beaune to Liverpool . |
| 17 | The well-dressing was started in Dore in 1959 as an added attraction for the scout gala , which takes place on the second Saturday in July , so an obvious choice for the design was ‘ A Boy Scout ’ , representing fifty years of scouting in the district . |
| 18 | ONE in eight schools suffers from fireraising each year , according to a report published yesterday . |
| 19 | The aim is 200 shops , with between 20 and 25 opening each year . |
| 20 | Woburn usually sees one or two newly-rebuilt Moths appearing each year but these seemed to be few and far between this time although one impressive exception was Torquil Norman 's immaculate DH.90 Dragonfly G–AEDU which made its debut here finished in a smart red and silver scheme . |
| 21 | 368 reaffirming 500 years of judicial acceptance of the requirement that a term must be certain applies to all leases and tenancy agreements . |
| 22 | A detailed study revealed that in Britain approximately 1,600 accidents caused by dogs result in human injury , with about 17 people dying each year as a direct consequence of such incidents . |
| 23 | In fact UNICEF estimates that preventing seven million babies dying each year will lead to the prevention of between 12 and 20 million births by the end of the century . |
| 24 | Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring . |
| 25 | Too Close for Comfort ? , the first film to show , in detail , the behaviour of rainforest chimpanzees , can be seen on Monday 6 January at 8.30pm on BBC1 , launching this year 's Wildlife on One series . |
| 26 | An article in May 1992 in Waste Age , an American magazine , on landfill capacity in North America , opened with a quotation from a federal official in 1889 : ‘ Appropriate places for [ refuse ] are becoming scarcer year by year , and the question as to some other method of disposal … must soon confront us . ’ |
| 27 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 28 | I 've lost count of the number of weddings happening this year — hence the need to do some dressmaking . |
| 29 | Earlier this year , she had pushed through a bumper privatisation bill and won the IMF 's support for Poland 's reforms by keeping this year 's budget deficit to a reasonable 5% of GDP . |
| 30 | In the general election of December 1986 the NAR won 33 of the 36 seats in the lower house and ousted the incumbent PNM ( which won the remaining three seats ) , ending 30 years of continuous PNM government [ see pp. 35194-95 ] . |