Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] this year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Producers were prepared to pay good money for quality stock and the number of sheep sold this year was higher than in 1990 . ’ |
| 2 | The major adult course to appear this year will be Headway Elementary , the fifth and last of the OUP series which has so dominated the UK and European market for seven years . |
| 3 | Six titles appear this year ; the first four are The Flower Garden ( 1 85029 369 4 ) , The Container Garden ( 411 9 ) , The Shady Garden ( 363 5 ) and The Glasshouse Garden ( 414 3 ) . |
| 4 | Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level . |
| 5 | But with a lower costs base and 6 p.c. rise in advertising revenue expected this year , the company is dipping into reserves to lift the dividend total 11 p.c. to 16p , with a 13⅛p final on June 8 . |
| 6 | CHRISTMAS came early at Fleetwood Branch this year ! |
| 7 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 8 | The Retirement Care Group , a company which specialises in managing retirement schemes , estimates that more than 4,000 sheltered properties are on the market and that builders have cut their original forecast of 12,000 units built this year back to about 8,000 as a result . |
| 9 | Visitors to Buckleys Yesterday 's World , the original Sussex Museum of Shops , will see many NEW attractions opening this year . |
| 10 | British leisure group Brent Walker , in debt to its banks to the tune of £1.2 billion ( $2.1 billion ) , announced a year-end loss of £256m , with further losses to come this year . |
| 11 | ONE of the best football statistical books to appear this year is The European Football Yearbook ( Sports Projects Ltd , £19.95 ) . |
| 12 | Retail trade in Cheltenham is traditionally quiet during Race Week , because shoppers heed traffic warnings about congestion and traders say this year was much the same as last . |
| 13 | Make it easy on yourself , visit us at the International Boat Show this year — or call your nearest Channel Yacht Brokers office now . |
| 14 | PW points out that had Perfect Information been accounted for as an associated undertaking , ‘ in our opinion up to £2m of the loss recognised this year would have been reflected in the year ended 31 March 1991 by elimination of profits arising on sales made to Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 15 | State-controlled telecommunications equipment supplier Italtel SpA will shed 1,000 jobs this year , as part of its four-year restructuring plan and expects to save $22m in labour costs this year as a result ; Italtel is also planning to lay off a total of 16,500 people temporarily for five weeks at a time this year . |
| 16 | And the emotion surrounding this year 's event spilled over . |
| 17 | The desire of the Cambridge Boat Club to win this year began the evening they lost last year . |
| 18 | Dave Lyon and Norman Clacher started this year off well with three routes in Arch Zawn . |
| 19 | The dating method itself must have a definable ‘ zero time point ’ : for example , the tree ring formed this year in dendrochronology ; the solidification of a volcanic rock in potassium-argon dating ; or the formation of a calcite layer for uranium series . |
| 20 | Mr Dole hopes this year to slip a repeal measure through the Senate attached to another bill , but it is too early to tell whether he has enough support . |
| 21 | Please sell as many books of tickets as possible , more are available from the Office — RING HILDA NOW — We must raise the much needed funds to complete this year 's programme and YOU OR ONE OF YOUR CLASS MEMBERS COULD BE A LUCKY WINNER . |
| 22 | In research completed this year , one of us ( Randles ) has shown that the ‘ mystery helicopter ’ is a typical UAP and has verified in the field a substantial number of Persinger 's postulates . |
| 23 | Such was the quality of the books donated this year ( realising £6,000 more than last year ) that pricing has become an ever-increasing responsibility . |
| 24 | Professional and amateur artists have all agreed to lend a hand in a bid to make this year 's festival the seventh one of the best yet . |
| 25 | AT&T Co 's equipment leasing and finance subsidiary , AT&T Capital Corp , has restructured as part of an ongoing process to become more financially independent : it formed a subsidiary that will keep the AT&T Capital name and continue to conduct most of its current businesses , and plans an initial public stock offering this year , the aim being that it should be able to issue debt independent of AT&T support ; as part of the restructuring , AT&T has guaranteed the debt outstanding as of March 31 of AT&T Capital and AT&T Credit , but the support agreement with AT&T Capital was terminated as from yesterday ; AT&T retains AT&T Capital 's Lease Finance assets , consisting primarily of equity interests in project finance transactions and leveraged aircraft leases , the company said . |
| 26 | With so many horses off to Cheltenham … the Nicholson challenge is more like a cavalry charge this year … |
| 27 | Berry struck with Soba Guest and Anusha , who took his winner tally this year to 106 . |
| 28 | As the economy recovers and the unfavourable short-term effects of the fall in the exchange rate feed through , I expect the deficit to widen this year to £17.5 billion . ’ |
| 29 | After his own death the Daily Sketch made reference to a large three-quarter-length self-portrait which Minton painted this year and which he afterwards destroyed . |
| 30 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |