Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further investment is needed at the colliery , which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium . |
| 2 | There is no sense of accountability in a council such as Edinburgh , which sought last year to tax residents at £584 per head . |
| 3 | Hence the portentous , and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum . |
| 4 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 5 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |
| 6 | For example , Virgin Holidays ( 0293–617181 ) offers a seven-night holiday at Disney 's Port Orleans Resort , which opened last year close to the Epcot Centre , at £679 per person for one week , or £899 for two weeks , including passes and nonstop flight to Orlando . |
| 7 | A new hotel which opened last year , the Mutiara has lived up to expectations as the island 's most luxurious hotel . |
| 8 | The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm , which folded last year , owed . |
| 9 | The Southern Rivers Project , which began last year and is funded by English Heritage , is concerned about the future preservation of nationally important Paleolithic sites . |
| 10 | Negotiations , which began last year , have been continuing since the collapse of the its parent company , Lilley , seven weeks ago . |
| 11 | Negotiations which began last year have been continuing since the collapse of the parent company , Lilley plc , seven weeks ago . |
| 12 | KINGFISHER , the group which owns Woolworth , Comet , Superdrug and B&Q , yesterday launched ‘ permanent ’ price cuts on 500 of B&Q 's product lines , extending the price-cutting policy which began last year with paint . |
| 13 | The Taking Account programmes , publicised yesterday , are the latest step in a consultation process to gauge the opinions of pupils , parents and teachers which began last year with the production of information packs and questionnaires . |
| 14 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 15 | These are often small firms , with brief track-records but big ambitions — bio-tech stocks , which boomed last year , are an example . |
| 16 | Borough councillors on the transport committee will consider the proposal on Monday but Mr Docherty said whatever their decision he expected they would take a back seat to Stockton Borough Council which coordinated last year 's meetings . |
| 17 | Finnegan has been under investigation after detectives were called in by creditors of North of England Investments who lost money in the company which collapsed last year . |
| 18 | It is , therefore , of particular significance to Lafayette as this new range , which took one year to develop , is launched into the market place . |
| 19 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 20 | Prune weeping standard roses by cutting back stems which flowered this year . |
| 21 | ‘ With the Bob Marley exhibition ( which toured last year ) Adrian had taken most of the pictures , so we knew what the images were . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 23 | Center Parcs , which won last year 's English Tourist Board ‘ England for Excellence Green Tourism Award ’ , also has a centre in Sherwood Forest in Nottingham , in France , Holland and Belgium . |
| 24 | And if your young rebel likes dance and Indie , you ca n't go wrong with Primal Scream 's fusion of both on Screamadelica ( Creation ) which won this year 's Mercury Music Prize . |
| 25 | STUNG by the jeers and booing which greeted last year 's avant garde production of The Gondoliers , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company says it has toned down the designs for its new version of The Mikado — despite the presence of a Lord High Executioner in flourescent pink leggings and yellow platform shoes , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 26 | We 've actually helped stop the oldest hunt in Scotland , in Li Lithgo in Stirlingshire , which ended last year . |
| 27 | Normally , the international environmental services company raises dividends in line with earnings per share , which jumped last year by 28.6 per cent to 8.018p . |
| 28 | Look what happened last year when the three of them nearly went bankrupt . |
| 29 | down to , I d I do n't even know what happened last year . |
| 30 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |