Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed last year will carry on working at four other tasks : cellulose losses , tow motor ( forklift truck ) costs , maintenance store stocks and quality information . |
| 2 | The number of contracts undertaken each year is approaching 10,000 deriving from thousands of customers in 50 countries , but 14 top customers in the UK and Europe still account for 70% of all business sales . |
| 3 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 4 | Most of the 2.2 billion pet-food cans sold each year are made from steel coated with tin . |
| 5 | Three Acts passed that year put into implicit political terms the principle underlying the mid-sixties statements of ‘ public ’ androgyny : ‘ Excessively polarised personality types thrive in a culture that demands the repression of certain natural tendencies while people are developing the so-called ‘ masculine ’ and so-called ‘ feminine ’ traits which society considers to be appropriate for each sex . ’ |
| 6 | The three councils were part of a consortium of 12 local authorities formed last year to prepare a joint specification of the requirements for a council tax computer system . |
| 7 | It specialises in building oak framed houses using 500 year old methods . |
| 8 | WinPad is expected to enable system manufacturers to design 1 lb pen-based machines that can span the $400 to $1,500 mobile computing market , with first products expected next year . |
| 9 | Six titles appear this year ; the first four are The Flower Garden ( 1 85029 369 4 ) , The Container Garden ( 411 9 ) , The Shady Garden ( 363 5 ) and The Glasshouse Garden ( 414 3 ) . |
| 10 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 11 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 12 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 13 | The Retirement Care Group , a company which specialises in managing retirement schemes , estimates that more than 4,000 sheltered properties are on the market and that builders have cut their original forecast of 12,000 units built this year back to about 8,000 as a result . |
| 14 | Visitors to Buckleys Yesterday 's World , the original Sussex Museum of Shops , will see many NEW attractions opening this year . |
| 15 | British leisure group Brent Walker , in debt to its banks to the tune of £1.2 billion ( $2.1 billion ) , announced a year-end loss of £256m , with further losses to come this year . |
| 16 | ONE of the best football statistical books to appear this year is The European Football Yearbook ( Sports Projects Ltd , £19.95 ) . |
| 17 | Retail trade in Cheltenham is traditionally quiet during Race Week , because shoppers heed traffic warnings about congestion and traders say this year was much the same as last . |
| 18 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 19 | BY crossing the Irish line six times at Twickenham , England in one fell swoop exceeded the total number of ties scored last year when winning the Grand Slam — and it 's time for this columnist to eat humble pie , after criticising England , along with the other Home Unions , for inferior standards of back play to Southern Hemisphere sides . |
| 20 | Sales of Rover cars slumped last year by nineteen percent . |
| 21 | Trooping the colour on Horse Guards Parade each year in front of Her Majesty the Queen is one of the major events in the Brigade of Guards ' calender |
| 22 | Magistrates at Buckingham , Bucks , heard how French , 56 , defied a 15-year ban on keeping animals imposed last year after more than 400 starving ewes and 25 cattle skeletons were found at Brook Farm near Winslow , Bucks . |
| 23 | The top ten on the ‘ junior ’ European circuit are awarded category 11b membership with increased opportunities to play next year on the multi-million senior tour . |
| 24 | Despite the downturn in Britain 's car market ( 300,000 fewer cars sold last year than in 1989 ) , new and better-equipped models continue to drop off the production lines at an astonishing pace . |
| 25 | The numbers of new British cars fitted with catalytic converters increased by over 1,000 per cent in 1990 , accounting for 5.4 per cent of the two million cars sold last year , according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 26 | However , only a small number of overseas visitors and speakers attend each year , and the festival hardly merits its ‘ International ’ billing . |
| 27 | As parts of this strategy we should consider using all the methods employed last year again . |
| 28 | As parts of this strategy we should consider using all the methods employed last year again . |
| 29 | Normally , about half the kids born each year will be dead by the following spring . |
| 30 | By 1975 , over 100 tonnes of porpoise meat was being sold in Peruvian fish markets , amounting to at least 2000 animals killed each year . |