Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 2 | It is a phantasmagorical performance , perfected over many years in advertising in which the prime requisite — apart from , or in spite of , talent — is to get yourself noticed , talked about and sought after . |
| 3 | This remarkable and rapid growth was attributable to a relatively small group of full-time tutors and organising secretaries resident in these counties who demonstrated over several years the importance of their roles , personal qualities and ‘ … their intimate association with members of branches and groups , which , in its turn , comes only from … active sympathy with those ends which they seek to achieve through adult education ’ . |
| 4 | One outcome of these severe inequalities , sustained over many years by a small privileged élite , has been that opponents of these regimes have resorted to armed struggle . |
| 5 | The canals of the area had been allowed to deteriorate over many years and for many months of each year could not carry full loads . |
| 6 | It will be gearing up this year , but is unlikely to repeat the 1991 rights issue . |
| 7 | he lives out all year and has a total sunblock applied to protect the sensitive areas . |
| 8 | because it 's only by that way that if , if he 's gon na need the grommets or something in his ear then he really needs to get it sorted out this year . |
| 9 | If it 's gon na plague him and give him trouble let's get it sorted out this year , even if it means that he has a little bit of temporary deafness for a little while , you know ? |
| 10 | Thirty per cent of the 1,500 residents moved out each year . |
| 11 | Biff could n't wait out those years , case he died first . |
| 12 | The tests were carried out some years previously under Soviet rule . |
| 13 | On the other hand Labour 's commission will start to develop proposals only after a broad social and economic ‘ audit ’ of the population has been carried out this year . |
| 14 | From my own observations , made over many years , another great area of calorie error is cold food . |
| 15 | The patient 's condition might change only slowly , as he can go on recovering over several years . |
| 16 | ‘ They will have no guarantee of funding , will have to re-organise their affairs to take account of the changes and partnerships with the council formed over many years will be lost , ’ said Martin Sime , Director of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations . |
| 17 | LESSONS could soon carry on all year at Darlington College of Technology in a bid to make education available to people from different walks of life . |
| 18 | How much we spent on Ghost House and Runaway Train er , and how much er , profit we 'll bring in this year . |
| 19 | Prayer , practised over many years , brings great changes in our person . |
| 20 | I thank you for all your prayers and support over many years and look forward to these 2 years in and around the fellowship . |
| 21 | Under-resourcing over many years had led to inordinate delays . |
| 22 | Nearly 1,000 tots line up each year for the championship , swimming in competitive matches about once every three weeks during the winter months . |
| 23 | Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year . |
| 24 | Mm is that you 've saved up this year ? |
| 25 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 26 | They have wide pelvises and calve easily , even to a Charolais bull , and are hardy and robust , living out all year round . |
| 27 | It 's an old black and white photograph which I cut out many years ago from a now long defunct feature magazine . |
| 28 | before that it had been done in eighty one , eighty two , eighty four , eighty six , eighty eight and ninety , so curiously now , it 's it 's missed out several years , |
| 29 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 30 | The first time Mossley won the league was in 1966 and four of that team turned out this year — Tommy Crawford , Jimmy McKeown , David McKinstry and Bill McGaffin . |