Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 2 | It rec , received a report therefore , from the Central Council of the World Counc , Council of Churches which meets I think , once a year Noel can correct me on this once a year , or a at least once every two years . |
| 3 | The tenancy is to be monthly at a nominal rent of £2 per month payable in advance , ( I would suggest that this should be payable once a year and would be grateful for your agreement to this ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps a single atom of interstellar hydrogen might strike each once a year ; such was the only breeze here between the stars . |
| 5 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 6 | He ate these twice a year or so |
| 7 | Deflationary pressure in the budget was expected to come from a continuing reduction in the fiscal deficit , to 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1992-93 ( compared with 8.4 per cent in 1990-91 and 6.5 per cent in 1991-92. i.e. the year ending March 31 , 1992 ) . |
| 8 | Therefore , despite the fact that a little over a year had passed since the Report had been received , he suggested that the interval between publication and the debate was not a matter for regret . |
| 9 | Due to the nature of the coat , the Wire-haired Dachshund requires more coat care than the other two varieties , and should be fully stripped-out twice a year . |
| 10 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 11 | Top 40 Hits , for instance , only lists records that entered the US Top 40 up to July 27 , 1991 and thus is well over a year in arrears . |
| 12 | It is now well over a year since I sent you Offensive from Quasar 13 . |
| 13 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 14 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 15 | did , got rid of that about a year , twelve , eighteen months ago |
| 16 | It is so easy to forget to pay those regular bills such as the rates and mortgage , and even more so those once a year commitments like club subscriptions and insurance premiums . |
| 17 | I GET mugged twice a year . |
| 18 | Applicants are strongly advised to contact the Adviser to Students with Special Needs early and when possible even a year before making formal application for entry to the University through UCAS . |
| 19 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 20 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 21 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 22 | The Arts Council sometimes sent round wispy collections of this and that , the Club had an exhibition of its own once a year , and now and then individual members had shows . |
| 23 | The village possessed a charter to hold a fair twice a year , on 10th July and 2nd October , and a market was held every week in the Market Place , near to the cross , until Driffield developed to become the principal market town in the area , after which it was transferred there . |
| 24 | He 's been saying that over a year . |
| 25 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 26 | Turned blue once a year . |
| 27 | This does n't mean to say that that we ca n't invite other people to a special once a year meeting of this transportation working party to deal with cycle issues . |
| 28 | ‘ You know your father almost went bankrupt about a year ago ? ’ |
| 29 | Very fashionable about a year and a half ago again , because all these things come round again do n't they ? |
| 30 | Plans for the so-called " three gorges dam " on the Yangtze river were reportedly resurrected in August 1990 over a year after they had been shelved by the Chinese government [ see also p. 37003 ] . |