Example sentences of "[adj] year and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Italy has had a tobacco advertising ban for 30 years and cigarette consumption has actually risen during that time , ’ said Mr Milburn . |
| 2 | This is n't the first Selecta Fiat , the concept has been used on Unos for some years and Fiat assures me that these automatics are dramatically improved from the older designs still used by other manufacturers . |
| 3 | You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ? |
| 4 | Income has dropped by £80million in the past 2 years and travellers will have to help bail them out . |
| 5 | She has subsequently had three other novels published-The Burning Book , Light Years and Grace . |
| 6 | Your family would n't hold you back , and you have a professional qualification that 's highly in demand wherever you go , if you wanted to stay a few years and work . |
| 7 | In some areas the precise details of the ban coverage has changed over the last few years and climber are requested to check that they re aware of these updates . |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those figures reflect a sharp improvement in this country over the past few years and scope for some of our Community partners to do more to encourage unleaded petrol sales ? |
| 9 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 11 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
| 12 | He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative group for ten years . |
| 13 | He was deputy convener of the region for 12 years and leader of the Conservative Group for ten years . |
| 14 | This means that it takes an average of 12 years and $231 million to develop a new drug . |
| 15 | Jesper Koll , Warburg 's chief economist in Japan , reckons that an average exchange rate of ¥105 would cause real GNP growth to decline to 1% this fiscal year and profits to fall by 33% . |
| 16 | The plant is due to close later this year and ICI is unlikely to restart production . |
| 17 | You 've had your share of ups and downs this year and December does little to change this pattern . |
| 18 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG last week put numbers on its next round of job cuts , saying it will shed 6,000 from its 49,200-strong workforce between September this year and September 1994 . |
| 19 | And the policy is bearing fruit : India 's economy will probably expand by more than 5% this year and inflation is down to 7% . |
| 20 | The IMF 's projections also show that America 's recession has failed to curb its inflation decisively : according to the forecast , inflation will average 5% this year and 4% in 1992 . |
| 21 | Tom Day believes the industry will reach its EC quota this year and winegrowers will be forced to stop planting vines . |
| 22 | According to Sunsoft , it attributes this delay — it originally promised developers kits by the middle of this year and end-user versions by year-end — to a number of factors . |
| 23 | These increases continue with gross margin expected to be up by 14 per cent by the end of this year and profit increased by a further 23 per cent . |
| 24 | Following a visit to Ingrow on August 11th this year and reading of reduced membership and escalating costs at the Bahamas Locomotive Society , I wrote the following day , as an ordinary member of the public , to their Secretary with the ‘ bare bones ’ of a suggestion for raising funds . |
| 25 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 26 | Essex display team have acquired a permanent home for this year and Rita Forde is coaching the forthcoming item for Crystal Palace . |
| 27 | Admittedly , Legent made its name as a mainframe software house but , Burton says , the proportion of revenues generated from non-mainframe sales is set to rise from around 25% last year to 40% this year and 50% in 1994 . |
| 28 | This work will also improve the reports available from the system , The Client Index will be ‘ networked ’ later this year and trials are currently underway in Muirhouse Crescent and Ferry Road Social Work Centres . |
| 29 | Estimates vary but profits will probably rise from £58.2m before tax to say £66m this year and £80m next , excluding property . |
| 30 | Freezing income tax personal allowances ; widening 20p in pound basic rate by £500 to £2,500 this year and £3,000 in 1994–5 . |