Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 2 | Mark 's brother Tim said from the family home in Trewennack , Helston : ‘ Mark missed last Christmas because he was on guard duty so obviously this year he was making a special effort . ’ |
| 3 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 4 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 5 | I tried to write a speech last year and I made a right mess of it , so this year I 'm gon na speak from the heart , because I might get a boo like the leader of the council here , I install water meters . |
| 6 | So this year I 'm doing just one new production and I 'm really glad we 're opening at the Tramway . |
| 7 | In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right . |
| 8 | After only three years we are now caring for one in four of those dying with AIDS in the UK . |
| 9 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 10 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 11 | After so many years I kept up this contact , especially with one or two who were real friends . |
| 12 | She was so constantly braced , her will so stiff from desire , that she could not sleep at nights ; she feared that if she fell asleep she might lose her determination and her faith , might wake up alone in her narrow bed , in the small back bedroom , overlooking the small square garden , backing onto the next small square garden , where for so many years she had lain and dreamed her subversive dreams . |
| 13 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 14 | A strange phenomenon of bamboo is that , dependent on which variety , after so many years it flowers and then dies . |
| 15 | It might n't seem like a happy arrangement but after so many years it 's become one . |
| 16 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |
| 17 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 18 | At one fête alone last year they raised £179 but this year all her work could be in vain . |
| 19 | ‘ This tour will make her want to do more , so next year we will hopefully be able to work with a band and do things on a grander scale . |
| 20 | I heard the master saying at school there could be a war , so next year I could be a man , could n't I , and be in the Army ? |
| 21 | So next year I think is potentially hoping that it 's gon na come . |
| 22 | so next year you 'll have |
| 23 | Perhaps next year we shall discuss flagship problems and decide that each boat must belong to a producers ' or other organisation , which is then allocated a quota from the United Kingdom TAC . |
| 24 | Only last year we saw how building workers who left the Union of Construction , Allied Trades and Technicians when its leadership fell into the hands of the far left were prevented from joining the General , Municipal and Boilermakers union , even after the GMB had indicated that it would welcome them . |
| 25 | Only last year he was the patriot who told his friend George Bush that he was against the Gulf war . |
| 26 | Only last year it suddenly shut its Speedlink service for individual wagonloads of freight . |
| 27 | But only last year she used to spend hours weeping on the floor of her flat because she thought her career was n't getting anywhere . |
| 28 | Only last year she toured India , visiting Khatmandu and flying over the length of the Himalayan range , getting as close as possible to Mount Everest — one of her most wonderful moments . |
| 29 | For most of them it will be without doubt the most taxing year they can remember . |
| 30 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |