Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 3 | Most of the 2.2 billion pet-food cans sold each year are made from steel coated with tin . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Visitors to Buckleys Yesterday 's World , the original Sussex Museum of Shops , will see many NEW attractions opening this year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ONE of the best football statistical books to appear this year is The European Football Yearbook ( Sports Projects Ltd , £19.95 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | However , only a small number of overseas visitors and speakers attend each year , and the festival hardly merits its ‘ International ’ billing . |
| 16 | Normally , about half the kids born each year will be dead by the following spring . |
| 17 | By 1975 , over 100 tonnes of porpoise meat was being sold in Peruvian fish markets , amounting to at least 2000 animals killed each year . |
| 18 | THE programme of guided summer walks arranged each year by Hampshire County Council gets into its stride on May 1st . |
| 19 | There are not all that many King Charles Spaniels born each year , and consequently puppies are hard to come by . |
| 20 | Please sell as many books of tickets as possible , more are available from the Office — RING HILDA NOW — We must raise the much needed funds to complete this year 's programme and YOU OR ONE OF YOUR CLASS MEMBERS COULD BE A LUCKY WINNER . |
| 21 | Such was the quality of the books donated this year ( realising £6,000 more than last year ) that pricing has become an ever-increasing responsibility . |
| 22 | It is launching an experimental scheme to turn some of the 2,000 tonnes of notes disposed each year into garden compost in collaboration with the Botanic Centre in Middlesborough . |
| 23 | According to the report , twenty thousand exotic birds die each year while being imported to Britain . |
| 24 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |
| 25 | One image sticks in my mind from Brands Hatch that year , a race at which Ronnie , who was then lying just about level with Mario , had taken a notable pole position . |
| 26 | Woburn usually sees one or two newly-rebuilt Moths appearing each year but these seemed to be few and far between this time although one impressive exception was Torquil Norman 's immaculate DH.90 Dragonfly G–AEDU which made its debut here finished in a smart red and silver scheme . |
| 27 | The brief given to the three craftworkers approached this year emphasised that what they produce must qualify as a high quality art object in its own right , preferably of a contemporary nature , and suitable to be displayed in the offices or boardrooms of this years ABSA award winners . |
| 28 | Twenty companies moved this year , 49 are set to go by 1993 and another 23 are considering moving — and not just to the suburbs . |
| 29 | Deliveries begin this year . |
| 30 | THE taxman is keen to talk to visitors attending this year 's Ideal Home Exhibition in the King 's Hall . |