Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] year it " in BNC.
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| 1 | each each year it sort of goes down to half . |
| 2 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 3 | ‘ After this extraordinary year it is about time the nettle was grasped . |
| 4 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 5 | another twenty years it 's littered with people who 've failed in this . |
| 6 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 7 | We can not , since over 140 million years it is likely that the threat of extinction due to climatic change may have been continually postponed . |
| 8 | For instance to this is an assumption that although we are going to have a shortfall on the collection fund , again because of good housekeeping we believe that this action is what people want by the charge payers of the city and again that in this financial year it can be taken out of the . |
| 9 | Worlwide last year it was over $200 so it 's big business and very well organised.It 's undoubtedlty the Triads in the Far East and the Mafia in America . |
| 10 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 11 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
| 12 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 13 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |
| 14 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 15 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 16 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 17 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 18 | It 's late this year it 's about the end of April in n it ? |
| 19 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 20 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 21 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 22 | After all these years it had finally happened ! |
| 23 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 24 | After all those years it was at last made clear to me why I had this fear . |
| 25 | I mean , after all those years it is difficult to take in . |
| 26 | I mean alright , yes , you sort of have worries , but most of the time , I mean , for all last year it 's run pretty well . |
| 27 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 28 | They can also carry on getting credit through a special ‘ debtor-in-possession ’ facility : when Campeau , a highly leveraged Canadian-owned retailer , filed for chapter 11 last year it quickly got $700m of credit , which kept its Federated and Allied stores open for business . |
| 29 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 30 | During my forthcoming Presidential Year it is my belief , as I know it is yours , that the Institute should and shall continue to look forward into the 90s and beyond and if there is to be a theme , it should quite simply be ‘ The Institute ’ . |