Example sentences of "do [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ?
2 The Sid Valley Talking Newspaper , we gave a hundred and fifty pound before and we have done each year .
3 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
4 We will continue to reduce tax burdens on business , as we have done this year for the motor industry , whenever it is possible to do so .
5 We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’
6 Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps .
7 Should Mr Goldin choose to attend any more fund-raising dinners of Noraid , the IRA 's American front , as he already has done this year , he can dine with no such blot of truth on his conscience .
8 It would be absolutely disastrous if after the excellent work that 's been done this year we were not able to maintain that .
9 I have n't done this year , I get a better present than I 've ever got .
10 be done this year
11 well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone .
12 I think it 's one of the most important things that we 're gon na do this year .
13 Although their research was done some years ago , the conclusions of Hatch and Mocroft still hold : ‘ On the whole , towns low in voluntary organisations tended to be the ones that were low in terms of social class ’ .
14 By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed .
15 ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray .
16 The paper went on to consider the question of ‘ The Grading of Murders ’ , traversing the same ground as a Royal Commission would do six years later , and reaching the same negative conclusions , except that Ede rejected the idea of giving the jury any discretion :
17 Boscastle is a truly delightful place , which looks very much the same as it must have done 600 years ago with its narrow winding streets and pretty 14th-century cottages .
18 And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth .
19 It 's just I 've , I 've done three years at university now and I , I
20 I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said !
21 Done three years , er here .
22 But what do you do all year , if you live there ?
23 but I mean ours does n't , mine does n't , I mean mine 's only a small one because I have n't done many years there .
24 7029 ‘ Clun Castle ’ made several trips in the North during September and October 1967 , and to see what single-chimneyed Castle could do 25 years later would be very interesting .
25 We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants .
26 In 1939 many men and women went , as others had done 25 years before , to serve in the Army , the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force .
27 For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery .
28 The procedural issues which inflamed the politicians left most voters cold , as they had done seventeen years earlier in the referendum campaign of 1945 .
29 He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years .
30 The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on .
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