Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A relatively small number of people , about 180 to 200 , are admitted or discharged each year , compared with the 200,000 or so people admitted to ordinary Health Service psychiatric units . |
| 2 | Around a million kitchens are purchased or upgraded each year in Great Britain . |
| 3 | On Jan. 25 the government ordered the ex-Prime Minister , Kazi Zafar Ahmed and members of his Cabinet in hiding to surrender themselves to the authorities within seven days or face one year 's rigorous imprisonment . |
| 4 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 5 | Approximately one car owner in ten will have their car broken into or stolen this year — that makes it a major problem . |
| 6 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
| 7 | The local crab industry is lucrative and expanding , as are the dolphin kills , and an estimated several thousand are being harpooned or shot each year . |
| 8 | Until recently , they were killed in their thousands by Turkish hunters in the Black Sea and they are still being actively hunted in Greenland , where about 1000 porpoises are harpooned or shot each year . |
| 9 | One of two new ranges to be introduced this summer , both ‘ Chippenham ’ and ‘ Melrose ’ ( dark and handsome in solid oak ) carry the Wilson & Glick ten year guarantee . |
| 10 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 11 | The Johnson Matthey contingent in this year 's Royston Fun Run raised a superb total of £2,000 and the four JM employees that entered this year 's London Marathon have raised a total of well over £1,500 . |
| 12 | The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica has been far worse than expected this year . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's statistics suggest the trade gap will be slightly bigger than expected this year , mainly due to recession among some of Britain 's key trading partners , notably Germany . |
| 14 | Yet the club has avoided the kind of foul-up that ruined this year 's Grand National steeplechase because of primitive starting procedures supervised by another archaic British body , the Jockey Club . |
| 15 | The organisers hope to top that figure this year . |
| 16 | The organisers hope to top that figure this year . |
| 17 | That more than matched last year 's total which , considering the unseasonally wet weather this July , delighted the crew . |
| 18 | What Steve is saying r recommending to you is that we do n't take up that purchase this year , which is in our budget . |
| 19 | Whilst the conference lacked the hardware launches that dominated last year 's show , companies announced more software for their systems as supercomputers try to move into the mainstream . |
| 20 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 21 | After the rash of Chinese shots by Western photojournalists that followed last year 's student uprising , Zeng Nian 's views of Peking come as a welcome and refreshing change , giving us the chance to see the country through Chinese eyes |
| 22 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 23 | COT deaths were more than halved last year following a national campaign to sleep babies on their back , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 24 | COT deaths were more than halved last year after a national campaign to sleep babies on their back , new figures show today . |
| 25 | The Woburn order included dwarf plums and cherries , French pears , an Elruge nectarine , and other fruit , with more young trees ‘ to make good those that died last year ’ in accordance with Gurle 's guarantee to supply ‘ the best of every sort in case any fail or die ’ . |
| 26 | The company that tops this year 's Business Smart 100 ( April ) , the ranking that identifies fast-growing companies most likely to survive recession , is Rolfe & Nolan . |
| 27 | Although promoted this year to the rank of station officer he felt , as his whole life had been fire fighting , that this new post was second best , said Mr Justice Otton . |
| 28 | And see who 's not coming this year that did last year . |
| 29 | Borrowdale seems relatively quiet but just reported , although climbed last year , on Caffell Side Crag , Steve Crowe , Simon Gee and Bob Bennet added Miss O'Gynist , E2 5c , taking a crack just right of Street Walker . |
| 30 | He was a member of the committee that organised this year 's BAIE convention in Torquay , where he hosted an open forum on layout and design and delighted members by staging a tasting of Courage ales . |