Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Erm well it 's , i various changes in erm the upset that we had last year with the recession and |
2 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
3 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
4 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
5 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
6 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
7 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
8 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
9 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
10 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
11 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
12 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
13 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
14 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
15 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
16 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
17 | They 've gone they 've gone more skimpy cos they fit last year . |
18 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
19 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |
20 | This is n't always possible as we saw last year and as we have been reminded , that was not an easy decision and in fact it 's one of the reasons that we have n't put extra money into the primary schools this year . |