Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 2 | The TCCB , who are financing this year 's competition , have decided that no trophy will be awarded to the winners of the Sunday League . |
| 3 | British space officials do not expect any major difficulties in finding the money for INTEGRAL , because ESA science programmes are paid out of the subscriptions of member states which are calculated several years in advance . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a new expression for YT that trainees are using this year — they 're calling it Slave Training , ’ said Mr Hanson . |
| 5 | In place of these grand documents are ‘ rolling programmes ’ that are revised each year , and the even more prosaic procedures of periodic adjustments in response to perceived needs and anomalies when resources become available — the classic ‘ incremental ’ approach of local government . |
| 6 | The company intends to cut about 4,500 jobs by the end of 1995 , leaving it with some 20,000 full-time employees , compared with 24,651 at the end of 1992 ; 3,500 jobs are to go this year . |
| 7 | The company intends to cut about 4,500 jobs by the end of 1995 , leaving it with some 20,000 full-time employees , compared with 24,651 at the end of 1992 ; 3,500 jobs are to go this year . |
| 8 | Basically , this means that your sums insured are adjusted each year in line with the rise in the cost of rebuilding and repairs , or of replacing your possessions . |
| 9 | About six day schools are arranged each year by the Department of Theology . |
| 10 | The A5-A49 Telford-Shrewsbury improvements and two other bypasses are opening this year , and we are also supporting a £446 million local roads programme . |
| 11 | Various inter-school knockout tournaments are organised each year under the auspices of ESCA , including the Lord 's Taverners Cricketer Colts Trophy . |
| 12 | Conferences and seminars for researchers and practitioners are organised each year . |
| 13 | French forestry officials argue that only 100,000 cubic metres of timber are felled each year , but agree that roads opened up by loggers should be closed to the public . |
| 14 | About 13 000 households are interviewed each year in Great Britain , the questions covering constantly varying subjects such as family composition , housing , unemployment , illness , and medical attention , long-distance journeys , educational qualifications , etc . |
| 15 | So far as ants are concerned , a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them , or termites , in 1 year , while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests ; of arboreal nests , 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year . |
| 16 | More boxes are added each year and checked periodically . |
| 17 | WHEN HANDPUMPS are installed this year in villages in Malawi , Pakistan and the Philippines , thousands of people will have their first chance of leading a healthy life . |
| 18 | The flower beds are replanted each year and many of the shrubs and trees , including old varities of apple , remain from the original kitchen garden . |
| 19 | Open access to all this vast capacity for generation of information creates its own demands : in the US alone 18 million filing cabinets are manufactured each year to hold the paper output . |
| 20 | An article in the weekly Die Zeit urging a more liberal citizenship law said only about 1,000 of the 1.8 million Turks in Germany are naturalised each year under complicated rules . |
| 21 | In Cali , about 25,000 tons of waste paper are collected each year , of which the garbage pickers contribute some 15,000 tons . |
| 22 | About 16 000 000 visits are made each year by town and city folk who come to use the same landscape . |
| 23 | Today , 2.5 million magnetrons are made each year for the microwave oven market . |
| 24 | Only a handful of such grants are made each year , and Woodchester Mansion 's success is all the more remarkable because the building was only ever half-finished |
| 25 | We commission consultants who produced a report suggesting a southern route , but the northern route , the A41 route , is not ruled out , because we have n't made any proposals — so we 're looking some years down the road . |
| 26 | Er I 'll go on to explain in the product range one of their new products we 're introducing this year . |
| 27 | This can , however , be largely avoided by insisting that his ROI targets are reset each year in the knowledge of assets held and investments to be undertaken during the year . |
| 28 | Approximately two million cars are sold each year in California — about the same number as registered annually in the UK . |
| 29 | ‘ Several thousand cases are sold each year , ’ says an Invergordon spokesman , ‘ but most of the sales are in Britain . |
| 30 | About how many extra houses are needed each year for this natural increase of people , assuming 3 people per house ? |