Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan , which would be the only remaining IWC member in favour of whaling if Norway left , says that it plans to use this year 's meeting , to be held in Kyoto , to " press for the resumption of commercial whaling around Japan and in the northern Atlantic " . |
| 2 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 3 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 4 | Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence . |
| 5 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |