Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 2 | It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded . |
| 3 | The next five months less than half a year af the next five months after that right ? |
| 4 | The numbers have increased dramatically recently : until 1977 fewer than 10 a year died but by 1988 it was 130 . |
| 5 | The reduction in output of volatile organic compounds ( VOCs ) coupled with a three-year community relations programme , has led to a drop in protests about solvent smells from the plant from more than 100 a year to one . |
| 6 | There are more than 200,000 a year in the United Kingdom alone . |
| 7 | Numbers of students emerging from courses for DipSW , or its equivalent , are still fewer than 5,000 a year , according to CCETSW 's annual report for 1991–2 . |
| 8 | High-cost patients would have their higher costs met by the district — patients who cost more than 5,000 a year would have the extra met by the district initially . |
| 9 | I very much hope that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-East ( Mr. Turner ) , as well as my hon. Friend , will welcome the fact that whereas in 1979 , 4 million working days were lost in the west midlands , recently days lost total little more than 100,000 a year . |
| 10 | ‘ Under the new legislation , if the amount of VAT that a business incurs in relation to selling nonvatable items is less than 7,200 a year , then all the money can be reclaimed . |
| 11 | He produces the stories at a craftsmanlike rate , no more than one a year , so it is some time since the appearance of the first volume , Pig Earth . |
| 12 | At a rate of more than one a year , Britain was to get 15 Pressurised Water Reactors . |
| 13 | less than one a year after . |
| 14 | Mr Mitsotakis , though half a year older , and no bundle of charisma , is in much better physical shape . |
| 15 | Later in the century the number shipped may have risen to as many as 100,000 a year , and the British share of the total certainly became larger . |
| 16 | The new Earl also inherited a 2.25 million bill for death duties as well as 80,000 a year running costs . |