Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [det] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Approximately one car owner in ten will have their car broken into or stolen this year — that makes it a major problem . |
| 5 | With the best will in the world many cases have to be withdrawn or discontinued each year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The 20 percenters , as they are colloquially known , receive benefits which more than compensate this year for their 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica has been far worse than expected this year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was going to a flat which would have very little growing space , apart from the odd window box , and was leaving behind an extremely beautiful garden that contained many years of memories . |
| 19 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although published some years ago this particular volume from the Ray Society ( which is more usually associated with learned works on natural history ) had not been brought to The Lifeboat 's notice before . |
| 25 | This leaflet is produced by the Health Education Council in conjunction with the organisers of The Great British Bike Ride , an annual sponsored bike ride from Land 's End to John o' Groats organised by Bike Events and sponsored this year , once again , for Friends of the Earth . |
| 26 | And it 's my contention , it 's my contention that them people that were er strafing and bombing me , er outside , er in republican Spain , was the same was the same crowd was the same crowd that were bombing and strafing several years later , in the in in the second world war , in in in France er and Holland . |
| 27 | And came this year and said , come on do this album . |
| 28 | In the tropics , plants receive enough light and heat all year round , but they also need water , and seasonal variations in rainfall affect their productivity . |
| 29 | In the mid-1820s the total number of despatches sent and received each year by the foreign office was about 12,000 . |
| 30 | She has now learned to drive and joined this year 's flag day to add £31,76p to her total . |