Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 2 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 3 | Linda , has always in the seven years I 've known her , spent fortunes on clothes and make-up as you can see . |
| 4 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 5 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 6 | Also in the same year he bequeathed £20 a year , the rent from the property known as Gassons in Snodland , to be used to provide great coats for the poor inhabitants of the same parishes . |
| 7 | Later in the same year he was able to compensate his brother in handsome style . |
| 8 | Later in the same year he assisted Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] in preparing plans and drawings for the London and Birmingham Railway Bill . |
| 9 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 10 | In well under the two years they had allowed themselves , the appeal had a total of £54 million with a further £30 million promised by the government . |
| 11 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 12 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 13 | Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win . |
| 14 | Then in the following year he gave Lewis £200 , to finance a trip to Sweden where he was to receive X-ray treatment for his deteriorating eyesight . |
| 15 | Sometimes over the past year she had wondered whether if Fernando had mentioned marriage it would have made any difference . |
| 16 | Erm , and the other one is the registration and inspection , where in the current year we have access to the best part of sixty five thousand pounds from to meet registration inspection , and you 'll see in the additions list , that , that there is er , a bid in there for the ongoing costs of that . |
| 17 | Well apart from the nineteen year he 's gone to university . |
| 18 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 19 | We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work . |