Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 2 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 3 | Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male . |
| 4 | As a result of our extensive review of the design and build business in the early part of last year we have reinforced our operational and management capabilities in this area with the appointment of a number of experienced design and build professionals . |
| 5 | In the early part of this year I , along with the relevant Group director , visited the majority of Wood Group companies to report on progress and our future plans . |
| 6 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 7 | No we actually did n't work for about six years until this year we did a concert tour of Ireland just before we came over here . |
| 8 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 9 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 10 | The first three months of this year we 've had an increase in sales , but those have really been attributable to improved er t to stronger U S and Canadian currency rates . |
| 11 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 12 | In longterm studies over several years he shows that with a wheat free diet these children are gaining weight and are reaching anormal growth pattern by comparison with age matched controls . |
| 13 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 14 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 15 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 16 | After suffering bulimia for 15 years she sought help because her children were beginning to comment on her abnormal eating habits . |
| 17 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
| 18 | In the first quarter of this year we 've seen more moderate growth in those geographical areas but in nineteen eighty nine nearly forty percent of Pearson 's trading ca profit came from economies outside the U K and North America and we expect our activities in these other areas to continue to grow at a satisfactory rate . |
| 19 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 20 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 21 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 22 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 23 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 24 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 25 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 26 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 27 | I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science . |
| 28 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 29 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 30 | Each year for six years he gathered the seed and planted each grain again . |