Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 2 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 3 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 4 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 5 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 6 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 7 | Just as he had last year in the pub in Kent when he 'd glassed the landlord — when the landlord had chatted to Jo while Jack was in the bog . |
| 8 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 9 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 10 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 11 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 12 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 13 | Before that I worked fifteen years for a international bank . |
| 14 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 15 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 16 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 17 | The flesh under her chin sagged as the fat disappeared but after just 5 months of stretching her lower jaw over her front teeth 5 times a day , her neck toned up magnificently and she looked 10 years younger ! |
| 18 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
| 19 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 20 | Well if she lasts another year and I 'll last another year , she 'll be older than me wo n't she ? |
| 21 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's your church like ? ’ 'Is n't the Bible heavy-duty reading ? ’ 'How can Jesus be alive today if he died 2,000 years ago ? ’ etc , etc . |
| 23 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 24 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 25 | Well as you said last year they really wanted something for nothing , for it |
| 26 | Many feel that so called rebel tours such as the one lead by Mike Gatting in 1982 did more harm than good.Cricketers were accused of sacrificing sport and principles chasing sizeable pay cheques and on their return were unrepentant even when they got three year bans from international cricket . |
| 27 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 28 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 29 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 30 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |