Example sentences of "[num ord] year [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Do n't get me wrong , last year saw some important and valuable contributions in this field , but did they ever stop to consider the impact of this deluge on the buying public ?
2 In Northern Ireland , last year saw some 5,000 redundancies , while the number claiming dole went up by 3,500 .
3 With troubled giants IBM and Compaq leading the way , the world 's computer makers decided late last year to inject some competitiveness into the European market , hastened by the growth of direct-mail computer sales .
4 That policy appears to be paying off in as much the national survey run at the beginning of last year showed some seventy two percent of businesses were still there after eighteen months .
5 But we spent the winter of 1888 with another , and the next year had some experience in pantomime .
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