Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceramic chip packaging specialist and OEM printer and personal computer manufacturer Kyocera Corp says it plans to cut its total workforce to 13,000 by shedding 1,000 jobs over the next three years to cope with a possible rise in the yen to 100 to the dollar ; the cuts will be achieved by reducing annual recruitment of graduates and normal retirement of some 700 a year , the company explained . |
| 2 | Another three will be built this year and a further 10 a year later . |
| 3 | That 's a suggested figure of twelve thousand seven hundred , which imply a building rate of eight hundred and forty six a year , in comparison with the adopted re er rate in the in the adopted plan of six o six and an actual building rate of seven o one , er my re calculation shows that that would be a thirty nine percent increase , over the adopted plan rate , and a twenty one percent increase over the actual rate . |
| 4 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 5 | The results of isolationism in terms of human suffering were massive emigration ( some 20,000 every year to Britain up to the 1960s ) , and industrial and commercial underdevelopment until the late 1950s . |
| 6 | People who are on six and a half thousand a year . |
| 7 | agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop . |
| 8 | if , if all I was talking about was twenty thousand pounds out of next year , I E six months , erm an investigator , a member of investigative staff , very roughly , costs us forty thousand a year in salary and office costs . |
| 9 | overall certainly if they 've got children , but if we get above thirty , forty thousand a year , it 'll take more the other people who 've gained so much |
| 10 | Between 1979 and 1983 , local government sold almost 600000 houses or flats , and at the peak were raising 2 billion a year in revenue from this source . |
| 11 | A TURNOVER OF AROUND 3200 MILLION a year is big business in anyone 's terms . |
| 12 | The hospital treats around 2,500 patients a year in casualty and another 1,000 a year on the wards . |
| 13 | Yeah the penultimate line is where you take off the existing policies from the total need and that 's what you 're left with the , the guy 's going to need two hundred thousand pounds to provide his wife with about eighteen , nineteen thousand a year . |
| 14 | Actually they do work well , I mean there is , there is one scenario where it does work well , if you 're elderly , and you 're in good health , then annuities are , are pretty good value because they look on their actuarial charts , if you 're an eighty eight year old , and er make an assessment and say well , for every ten thousand you give us , we 'll give thirteen thousand a year . |
| 15 | that 's only twelve thousand , thirteen thousand a year , that 's crap , that 's what Gerrard gets just on his own |
| 16 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 17 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 18 | They say the cost of the FA-18 , spread over ten years , is not inordinate in a rich country that spends SFr10 billion-15 billion a year on defence , if one counts everything ( including the hidden contributions of businesses that regularly lend their employees to the army at full pay ) . |
| 19 | Built in left-hand-drive form only , a mere 125 a year of the 155mph saloon will reach the UK , starting around mid-year at a price expected to be close to £52,000 . |
| 20 | From 1986 onwards , the Thatcher government raised 4–6 billion a year by selling off some of the major public corporations — British Gas , British |
| 21 | " Not more than about six hundred a year , and that would n't worry him . |
| 22 | At a time when the incidence of AIDS has risen to er approximately to two thousand four hundred a year , compared with one thousand six hundred a year in i i i in the previous twelve months . |
| 23 | And he gets in about three thousand six hundred a year on that . |
| 24 | He said , well , he said there was two of us he said working together and er , I 'd be look out for my mate or he 'd be look out for me , he says erm ooh , between five and six hundred a year , he said they pinch ! |
| 25 | The UK rebate of some ECU 2,000 million a year on its budget contributions remained unaffected . |
| 26 | From Boswell we learn that the Laird of Macleod was in debt to the tune of forty thousand pounds , and this Hebridean Micawber had an income of only thirteen hundred a year . |
| 27 | Internal migration within Britain has been largely responsible for these trends , with the level of net immigration to the South rising from 24 000 a year in 1971/73 to 45–50 000 a year by the end of the 1970s and rising steadily since 1981 to reach 69 000 in 1985/6 ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 28 | You can give 'em three thousand a year to er in total to anybody you 've got all the exemptions like two hundred and fifty pound in any one gift erm and you 've got things like five thousand pounds on marriage of a child that you can give , and all these add up little cumulative bits here there and everywhere which helps you to dispose of an estate . |
| 29 | and we , and we were looking at er at ten percent , my maths are good , we 're looking at what three , three thousand a year ? |
| 30 | And I 'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself . |