Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 2 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 3 | Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire . |
| 4 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
| 5 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 6 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 7 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 8 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 9 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 10 | Apolitical and never the holder of any union office , Kirkland had 36 years as a Glasgow ambulanceman before he retired last year . |
| 11 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 12 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 13 | Most often he falters by trying to second-guess himself and his audience , and sound like he did 10 years ago . |
| 14 | The competition will be judged by Alan Amey , who was an apprentice at the John Makepeace Workshops in 1976 , and then head craftsman until he left last year . |
| 15 | This month I was the first Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to be invited to address its conference since it began 15 years ago . |
| 16 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 17 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 18 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 19 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
| 20 | accident at service cos he wants all year four holding |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm disappointed with the criticism I got , stuff like I looked light years away from Tyson , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm disappointed with the criticism I got , stuff like I looked light years away from Tyson , ’ he said . |
| 23 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 24 | Of the 35,000 who have been accepted , about 26,000 are expected to be at the start and these will include one of Britain 's most famous athletes , David Bedford , who has slimmed down for his first big race since he retired 11 years ago . |
| 25 | The Commissioners answers came in the form of a set of proposals which represented the most fundamental reshaping of the common Agricultural policy since it began 30 years ago . |
| 26 | Since Food Giants are spreading so fast around the country — they 've opened more than one store a month since they started last year — we 've put their claims to the test . |
| 27 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 28 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 29 | Ronnie Barker was hoping for a peaceful life when he retired six years ago . |
| 30 | 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 . |