Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 2 | AdStar , which employs just under 16,000 people , failed to perform last year , with turnover down 12% at $6,110m , and a net loss of $265m after restructuring charges . |
| 3 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 4 | Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance . |
| 5 | Technical advice from fellow Lancastrian John Spencer helped to land last year 's title and he is again in his corner . |
| 6 | The Jerusalem that Richard tried to capture 700 years ago is proof of that . |
| 7 | The stern , slightly pained expressions on the saints ' white and pink faces seemed to reflect fifty years or more of having a brass trumpet sounding in their ears . |
| 8 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 9 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 10 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 11 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 12 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 13 | The company , which returned to profit last year following a rigorous re-structuring programme ( CI No 2,010 ) , saw a sharp improvement in its continental European operations where revenues grew 17% , taking into account the fall in sterling . |
| 14 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 15 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 16 | Digital cameras and digital video cameras began to appear last year . |
| 17 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 18 | Research shows that a large percentage of known deserted settlements in England and Wales were deserted or began to decline 600–700 years ago . |
| 19 | THOUSANDS of commuters yesterday rushed to beat New Year train fare rises . |
| 20 | Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd began to operate last year when 160 miners each invested £10,000 to reopen the pit . |
| 21 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 22 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 23 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 24 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 25 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 26 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
| 27 | A further £1.1m from the sale , together with the cash generated from group operations , combined to turn last year 's debt of £4.8m into cash of £1.2m this year . |
| 28 | Miller frequently mentions Sherard 's contributions to Chelsea , among them Phlomis orientalis , Jerusalem sage , completely destroyed by the great frost of 1740 and P. flavescens , which managed to survive many years in a warm border . |
| 29 | It 's a great introduction and , combined with the two-on-one US import of ‘ GP/Grievous Angel ’ CD , it lets you hear how profoundly moving country music managed to get 20 years back . |
| 30 | She would be employed specifically to enter journal subscription data into our computer system — the job which Paul Ainsworth failed to complete last year due to absences . |