Example sentences of "[det] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | each each year it sort of goes down to half . |
| 2 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 3 | He pointed out : ‘ In this current year we are getting something like £4.5 million . |
| 4 | ‘ After this extraordinary year it is about time the nettle was grasped . |
| 5 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 6 | For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed . |
| 7 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 8 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 9 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 10 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 11 | Even this is probably this one year you could probably done with |
| 12 | even this , it 's probably this one year you could probably eat a |
| 13 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 14 | In this Olympic year we are making a major commitment to athletics . ’ |
| 15 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |
| 16 | another twenty years it 's littered with people who 've failed in this . |
| 17 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 18 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 19 | Grant that in this new year we may know your presence , see your love at work , and live in the light of the vent which gives us joy forever — the coming of your Son , Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 20 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 21 | For instance to this is an assumption that although we are going to have a shortfall on the collection fund , again because of good housekeeping we believe that this action is what people want by the charge payers of the city and again that in this financial year it can be taken out of the . |
| 22 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 23 | ‘ There was a silly damned bird called the phoenix back before Christ : every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up . |
| 24 | During this last year she was a finalist in the Woking Young Musician competition and won the Dr. Clifford Page Cup for the most outstanding instrumentalist at the Aldershot and Farnborough Festival . |
| 25 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 26 | This means that the three remaining days will be packed more tightly and although it is too late for this academic year we will in subsequent years have one day at the start of each term . |
| 27 | I said this , thi this next year I 'm gon na try and m make no end of jam . |
| 28 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 29 | and it 's just been another seven years you 've been able to work |
| 30 | ‘ I used to be very much of a guitar-turned-bass player , ’ he admits , ‘ although this past year I 've started listening to bass players properly . |