Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 2 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 3 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 4 | We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution ! |
| 5 | I 'll prepare a ship at Bristol , take you and Hawkins with me , and have that treasure if I have to search for a year ! ’ |
| 6 | A government resolution which would transform the mutual debts of state enterprises into " transferable long-term bonds " , to circulate for a year until their conversion into shares , was put to the Supreme Soviet on June 26 together with the budget statement . |
| 7 | Exchange gains and losses arising from trading transactions are taken to profit for the year . |
| 8 | He won the International Kondrashin Competition four weeks after leaving the Royal Academy of Music , a music degree at Manchester already accomplished , and turned down all offers to conduct for a year . |
| 9 | I would n't like to go through a year without being in a war because I feel as if that 's my yearly hang-up . |
| 10 | It is perhaps hard for us to realize after the years of the inter-war depression that for sixty years before 1914 the Durham pit men and the shipyard workers of Tyne and Wear were among the most highly paid workers outside the USA … . |
| 11 | Total government indebtedness was expected to increase during the year from 97.5 per cent of GDP to 100.5 per cent . |
| 12 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 13 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 14 | She had planned to work for a year in England then take a post-graduate certificate in education at London University before going home to do her officer training in Australia . |
| 15 | In 1976 , 10 per cent of US married couples with wives aged 15–44 had been unable to conceive after a year . |
| 16 | That simple incident was enough to form the basis of the very real phobia from which Joyce was to suffer throughout the years which followed . |
| 17 | There 's plenty of space for you to jot down those important dates , and there are super recipes to try throughout the year . |
| 18 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
| 19 | In vase-painting the late work of the Pioneers and the formation of a new generation of masters seem to come in the years around 500 . |
| 20 | In Canada , Siberia , and the Far East , in the trans-Andean regions of Latin America and in Africa , the heroic building period was to come in the years when the railways stood on the threshold of being overtaken by new transportation developments , the internal combustion engine and later the aeroplane . |
| 21 | And a woman aged 42 now would have to work until the year 2015 when she is 65 . |
| 22 | The Port of Belfast now handles more than 55% of Northern Ireland 's seaborne trade and this impressive figure is likely to increase in the year 's ahead . |
| 23 | It also urged a move away from the practice of streaming — which , given the importance after 1944 of the universal competitive examination at eleven-plus , had tended to increase in the years after the War . |
| 24 | The promise of 1968 had begun to fade before the year had ended . |
| 25 | A Czech cartoon managed to appear in the years of ‘ Normalization ’ with a caption which summed up this perverse process : ‘ Thanks to the continuous development of socialism , we became a developing country . ’ |
| 26 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 27 | Once you have agreed , even if the outcome is a compromise that falls short of your original expectations , the sensible thing is to try to stop worrying about what has occurred in the past and to concentrate on the years ahead . |
| 28 | The Company has continued to flourish over the years and Edenderry now has a thriving Company Section and Junior Section . |
| 29 | French coal production is likely to fall by nearly 40% by 1990 and to halve by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | Population growth in the steep-sloped areas of these countries is expected to increase by the year 2000 , by between 40 and 59 per cent in many areas ( e.g. Ecuador , El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras ) . |