Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt that the Stand we had last year was well worthwhile . |
| 2 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 3 | I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were . |
| 4 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 5 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 6 | The cottage they bought 38 years ago for £4,500 will be swept away as the last unspoilt corner of the village becomes an estate of 150 homes . |
| 7 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 8 | Wake , junior ABA champion and defending his schools title against the boy he beat last year , Roger Campbell , of Hampshire , found it hard going against a shorter but stockier opponent and had to survive being hurt in a tough second round before being given a majority decision . |
| 9 | Memory loss by the state Erlend Clouston reports on the difficulty people like Debbie Finni have in obtaining treatment for brain disorders like the amnesia she suffered four years ago . |
| 10 | The desire of the Cambridge Boat Club to win this year began the evening they lost last year . |
| 11 | Dubliner Paul Griffin heads to Turkey to defend the title he won two years ago in these same championships . |
| 12 | Dubliner Paul Griffin heads to Turkey to defend the title he won two years ago in these same championships . |
| 13 | Parrott , the world number two , is hoping to retain the title he won last year . |
| 14 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 15 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |
| 16 | ‘ It wo n't shake the football world if we beat Torquay — but I want a repeat of the feeling we had last year after beating Walsall . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe Mr and Mrs Lewis at 119 Cedar Avenue were not in their usual positions , snoring back to back in the bed they bought twenty years ago . |
| 18 | The message they will tell the world is that recovery really is about to show — but they will be conscious this is the message they broadcast last year too . |
| 19 | As for the man you knew three years ago — he is no longer around . |
| 20 | ‘ The man I knew three years ago would never have stood serving sausages to other people . |
| 21 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 22 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The reason I went last year it was Birmingham , May . |
| 25 | Now the reason I mention last year 's events , is that I suspect that the same arguments are gon na be trotted out again . |
| 26 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 27 | We did n't expect the country we edged last year to look so much better than our team this summer . |
| 28 | one 's like this but the problem we hit this year er , we did n't do it that early was the kids had got the forms out then the timetable and the financing came in and we did n't know what was happening |
| 29 | I reckon by the time we finish this year , we 'll have spent £4,000 on training and equipment for Fiona . ’ |