Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair needs moisturising all year long which is why more and more products are formulated with effective conditioning ingredients . |
| 2 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 3 | Councillors say grazing all year round is ruining the grass and they want to restrict the ancient rights of commoners . |
| 4 | And Austicks described discounting this year as ‘ literally a non-event , at least in Yorkshire , with very few customers even mentioning the word ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further . |
| 6 | This will need topdressing each year in spring , together with the addition of a little slow-acting organic fertilizer — herbs are much more aromatic when grown " hard " with little nutrient . |
| 7 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 8 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 9 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 10 | The interim dividend is being cut from 2.53p to 1½p on August 17 , but the board intends maintaining last year 's 4.4p total . |
| 11 | Why keep wasting 13 years when Labour can prove the same point in less than half the time . |
| 12 | Beam waiting two years |
| 13 | I do n't mind teaching one year though , but nobody else wants to move down , I move down and Liz moves down that 's this places Jo erm , Jan they wo n't want to move down , they move down that the next two , they do n't wan na move , Terry does n't want to go down any lower |
| 14 | A cash-starved foot ferry service can keep running this year thanks to the help of councillors , the skipper revealed last night . |
| 15 | A report of a working party on the ethical dimension of choice in health care observed that ‘ any procedure that includes counting extra years of life as part of the benefit of medical procedures will risk shifting resources away from the elderly and towards younger age groups . ’ |
| 16 | I was going shopping twenty years later with my parents and my own little girl Sara in her push-chair , when my mother said to my father , ‘ Are you going to nip into the Post Office ? ’ |
| 17 | THE Jones family were celebrating last night after their pet terrier , Tiger , returned to their home at Welshpool , Powys , after going missing three years ago . |
| 18 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 19 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 20 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 21 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
| 22 | Hopper 's film , which he first began writing four years earlier , had now also become a touch dated but that was not the major problem . |
| 23 | Sandra began collecting several years ago after a large repair bill for a timepiece prompted her to learn the intricate ins and outs of their workings . |
| 24 | I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round . |
| 25 | Homebase avoided joining last year 's discount war initiated by Texas and B & Q. Instead we responded with a strong special offer programme supported by more regular national newspaper advertising and more aggressive point of sale material . |
| 26 | Mr Young started knitting 10 years ago . |
| 27 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 28 | The SACIM countries already hold stocks of ivory and Zimbabwe 's national parks department says elephant numbers have become so large that it will have to start culling next year . |
| 29 | Well , like I say , it 's not erm an ambition really of mine it 's a challenge of a lifetime because I 've never liked running and I decided that as I started running two years ago that er the marathon was the ultimate , and as it 's the ultimate challenge I thought what I 'm asking and why I 've asked to come in to FOX F M is to er ask the businesses of Bicester to help me er raise money for the er Bicester Health Centre , and also for the Bible School boys sponsoring me . |
| 30 | He started drinking 18 years ago . |