Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] year it " in BNC.
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1 | Worlwide last year it was over $200 so it 's big business and very well organised.It 's undoubtedlty the Triads in the Far East and the Mafia in America . |
2 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
3 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
4 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
5 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
6 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
7 | It 's late this year it 's about the end of April in n it ? |
8 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
9 | During my forthcoming Presidential Year it is my belief , as I know it is yours , that the Institute should and shall continue to look forward into the 90s and beyond and if there is to be a theme , it should quite simply be ‘ The Institute ’ . |
10 | Napier 's principal , Professor William Turmeau , said the budget may lead to the most difficult financial year it has ever experienced . |
11 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
12 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
13 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
14 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
15 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
16 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
17 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |
18 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
19 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
20 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
21 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
22 | A new one is made every year and for the past 25 years it 's been engraved at the same Birmingham workshop . |
23 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
24 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
25 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
26 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
27 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
28 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
29 | For the past two years it has allowed our PCs and Macintoshes to share data in a wide range of formats without any hassle at all . |