Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right and er at that year , that er time , we had a drop of five shillings a week and he had an increase of fifty pound a year . |
| 2 | A TEENAGER was repeatedly stabbed by a masked man in a busy area in broad daylight a year ago . |
| 3 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 4 | Another hospital near Worcester became another home a year later . |
| 5 | The proembryoes can be frozen and stored , and their availability improves the chance of success of in vitro fertilizations as well as allowing a woman to have another child a year or two after the first . |
| 6 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 7 | I moved away from home to work in another town a year ago , and have met a man who , as far as I 'm concerned , is Mr Right . |
| 8 | Barbados had witnessed a rather different Hanif a year earlier as he took out a 16-hour 10-minute lease on the crease and sculpted a monumental 337 against Worrell and Co . |
| 9 | Rick Fehr , who , like Kite , lost out in a play-off for this title a year ago , closed with a 67 to match the old tournament record of 331 . |
| 10 | Outright sales were down on what was a pretty dim quarter a year ago , but at least the headline figures enabled John Akers to make his characteristically jaunty statement with a little more justification than of late . |
| 11 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |
| 12 | Apart from her territorial gains , Britain got the right in the Treaty of Utrecht to sell 4,800 slaves a year in Spanish America which , at a normal profit of about £4 a head , might yield £20,000 , and in addition one British ship a year would be allowed to visit Cartagena and trade there . |
| 13 | Another poll a year later asked respondents the extent to which they thought they could trust certain countries as allies in the event of war . |
| 14 | A British estimate a year later , based largely on intelligence from American sources , concluded that North Korea would triumph in an encounter from which other countries were excluded . |
| 15 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 16 | Expenditure was £20.1 billion in January and £199.5 billion in the year to date , compared with £19.5 billion and £176.4 billion at this stage a year ago . |
| 17 | It will also outline the role and operation of the Social Work Services Inspectorate , which has come in for severe criticism since it was set up by the Scottish Office a year ago . |
| 18 | how much money a year d' you reckon John Majors on ? |
| 19 | Cripps , for instance , admitted that he " was bitterly opposed to any such alignment a year ago " . |
| 20 | Importers accounted for 57.2 p.c. of sales last month compared with 54.6 p.c. a year earlier . |
| 21 | The United pilots ' union had attempted unsuccessfully to finance a similar bid a year ago when the airline was trading at less than half the final sale price . |
| 22 | Er it 's thirty six pound a year to be a member there but if you are a keen sportsman their facilities are well worth using because it 's a very very good sports centre indeed . |
| 23 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 24 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 25 | George Swinson , a sixty-five-year-old sailor , had sustained a serious accident a year previously when he fell from the upper yard of a ship at Portland , Oregon . |
| 26 | Wild animals are used for food but at a level at which they can still reproduce a similar surplus a year later . |
| 27 | John Surtees kept the British flag flying in 1964 , before Clark won his second title a year later . |
| 28 | They started off with a lump sum of 5s. in the January of 1778 , followed by a similar amount a year later , and 10s. for each of the next two Christmases . |
| 29 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 30 | Farmers produce between five and six million tonnes of surplus straw a year — with the ban on stubble-burning , they 're going to be spending alot more of their time dealing with it in the future . |