Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 2 | Actually Dennis and Karen 's ancestors most likely dwelt among the cattle and kine in a wattle-and-daub barrio beneath the castle jakes , but their descendants cultivated a taste for wine and continental cooking , went riding and spent the obligatory two weeks a year in a rented villa in the Dordogne . |
| 3 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 4 | The Chancellor , Norman Lamont , has said the average taxpayer would have to pay an additional thousand pounds every year under a Labour government . |
| 5 | He said that this ‘ duo bus ’ needs an extra 173 hours a year for maintenance compared with a trolleybus , a diesel bus or any other bus . |