Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TCCB , who are financing this year 's competition , have decided that no trophy will be awarded to the winners of the Sunday League . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's a new expression for YT that trainees are using this year — they 're calling it Slave Training , ’ said Mr Hanson . |
| 3 | Now it is totally true , that the start of that O C S contract was a disaster , and it is also true that several months on , the pay of the cleaners is still not being correctly done , and concerns are being raised in the governors , it 's a four years contract , being an L M S contract , and under G M S they are submitting one year contracts . |
| 4 | An article in May 1992 in Waste Age , an American magazine , on landfill capacity in North America , opened with a quotation from a federal official in 1889 : ‘ Appropriate places for [ refuse ] are becoming scarcer year by year , and the question as to some other method of disposal … must soon confront us . ’ |
| 5 | The A5-A49 Telford-Shrewsbury improvements and two other bypasses are opening this year , and we are also supporting a £446 million local roads programme . |
| 6 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 7 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
| 8 | but if you 're using three year average , three recent three years . |
| 9 | We commission consultants who produced a report suggesting a southern route , but the northern route , the A41 route , is not ruled out , because we have n't made any proposals — so we 're looking some years down the road . |
| 10 | You would n't want to think of McCloy laughing , going scotfree , while you 're doing fifteen years ? |
| 11 | Er I 'll go on to explain in the product range one of their new products we 're introducing this year . |
| 12 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 13 | You have n't been waiting six years , Luke . ’ |
| 14 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 15 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 16 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 17 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 18 | The ultimate answer used to be a move to the former East Germany , where some would-be subscribers had reportedly been waiting 23 years to have a telephone installed . |
| 19 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 20 | The Barbados Cricket Association are marking 100 years of organised club cricket on the island with a series of celebrations . |
| 21 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 22 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 24 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 25 | Back home they are celebrating 200 years but that seems nothing compared to her . |
| 26 | Badly treated ‘ It was considerably less than I am getting this year . |
| 27 | We are sharing this year 's Sponsored Event with the Asthma Research Council ( our official 1989 fund raising event ) Your support and that of your class members is urgently needed — contact at the Office for tickets and sponsor forms — NOW . |
| 28 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 29 | Maternal and infant mortality rates are among the worst in Asia , while literacy figures , especially in women , are getting worse year by year . |
| 30 | LAMP 's activities are expanding each year , reaching a growing network of people . |