Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] year " in BNC.

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1 By the 1780s Bath and Bristol as well as London were the receivers , via Exeter , of the 500 vanloads a year which were sent from Brixham in Devon .
2 But not many of the seventh years the year I am
3 The great age of Antwerp in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is inevitably the theme of the main exhibitions the year .
4 Born in South Shields , Scott was one of the 12 months a year men who played League football and County cricket .
5 The demise of the 12 months a year man is due mainly to the extra pressure , and greater financial rewards , in both sports .
6 Hong Kong 's Victoria Harbour is used by over a quarter of a million ships a year .
7 You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’
8 However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny !
9 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 .
10 At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year .
11 Perhaps it will be both rather more demanding and more flexible than some , asking for a few hours a year but with more emphasis on personal planning .
12 Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims .
13 BSAC spokesman Kendal McDonald claims that this compares with the 35 fatalities a year associated with angling , 39 with boating , and 44 with swimming .
14 Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 per cent of the vote .
15 Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have .
16 The prize of five hundred pounds helped me start my business and as well as meeting the Prince I now send an outfit to the young princes every year .
17 My answer again is practical and comes from a further eight 30 min lessons given to the same children a year later .
18 Mr MacGregor will be told that during the first 12 of the 13 four-week periods of the 1992-93 financial year — which ends in a fortnight — fare income was up 9 per cent on the equivalent periods a year earlier .
19 It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year .
20 And this Mr you see , he used to have several , in the course of twelve months , they used to have several bullocks cos he used to keep perhaps , well up to eighty to a hundred bullocks a year for fat , yeah .
21 Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles .
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