Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even some of the most popular retirement spots , such as Torbay , Sidmouth , Bath and Budleigh Salterton , have their fair share of bargains , with prices 40 per cent down on three years ago . |
| 2 | Thames Valley police caught one hundred and fifty four … that s down on last years one hundred and ninety nine . |
| 3 | IF charities are concerned because sales of their Christmas cards are down on previous years , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 4 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 5 | The sale , which began in 1955 , has been in decline : last winter fewer than 290 booksellers and 12 publishers took part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 6 | The 1993 winter sale , which ends on 30th January , has so far been a major disappointment : fewer than 290 booksellers have taken part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 7 | As a result , the number of such procedures is well down on previous years because the process is much better . |
| 8 | Initial reports suggest that visitor numbers were down on previous years , but that the quality of enquiry was high , helped by the positive reaction of visitors responding to specific areas of business on display . |
| 9 | Above : The Confederate Air Force SB2C-5 Helldiver was part of a varied , but down on previous years , attendance at the charismatic Geneseo airfield . |
| 10 | I ended up on three years ' probation . |
| 11 | In the meantime , Mike Harris will miss out on this years batch of heather honey . |
| 12 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 13 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 14 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 15 | MARY BAILEY looks back on seven years as the cichlid-keeper 's agony aunt . |