Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 3 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 4 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 5 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 6 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 7 | And the trend is expected to continue this year . |
| 8 | John Tugwell , a rival to Wanless in the race to succeed Frost , wins diplomatic praise from his new boss for the way he has restored Bancorp to profit this year . |
| 9 | Laurie Smith , who worked at the forge from 1936 until its closure , has arranged this year 's reunion at The Cottage , alongside The Freemasons ' Hall , in Archer Street , Darlington . |
| 10 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
| 11 | Ken Doyle , Vice-President , has completed 17 years ' service on the Executive Committee since first being elected in 1973 as Wexford Area Secretary . |
| 12 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 13 | George has completed 40 years ’ service with the company working in various locations and all his friends and colleagues gathered at Southall to wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 14 | Geoff has completed 50 years service with Rolls-Royce and associated companies , a record unlikely to be beaten in these modern enlightened times . |
| 15 | Ron Gallacher , Production Director , has completed twenty-five years service with Lyles Carpets . |
| 16 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 17 | For example , employers can now pay full pension , without actuarial reduction , at any age between 50 and 70 , provided an employee has completed 20 years ' service with the organisation . |
| 18 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 19 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 20 | Now , after further lobbying by the Specialist Car Manufacturers Group , the self-regulatory body which Caterham founded ( Mr Nearn is its chairman ) , a secondary legislation amendment has been drawn up , and is expected to pass this year , which will allow Caterham to manufacture up to 500 fully-built cars a year , under a low volume manufacturer classification . |
| 21 | Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject . |
| 22 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 23 | The Institution of Professionals , Managers and Specialists ( IPMS ) has attacked next year 's public spending plans for science , in its policy document Science in crisis — a trade union response . |
| 24 | I 'm slightly concerned about this because it said that other matters erm we do n't know what other matters until the inspector has been in , in June and has identified those other matters , presumably when we get the further inspector 's report next Autumn or after June , it will address issues which may have been ones he has addressed this year and maybe not , er and we will have to look at that inspector 's report when we receive it . |
| 25 | The Dublin-based liquid petroleum gas company , Flogas , has reported full year pre-tax profits of IR£6.52m , down from IR£7.16m in the previous year . |
| 26 | No matter , because of the agreement , the aluminium company has enjoyed 13 years so far of the theoretical value of the plutonium which has not been produced . |
| 27 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 28 | ANNE Stokes , a 30-year-old rating surveyor and taxation adviser who surveys and values cement works and quarries , has won this year 's Young Career Woman award organised by the Federation of Business and Professional Women . |
| 29 | A new type of thermal imager camera working in the far infra-red has won this year 's Prince of Wales Award for Innovation , which is organised by Business in the Community . |
| 30 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |