Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 2 | During the course of a single year I will use upwards of one thousand Biros , yet I have never actually worn one out . |
| 3 | And every Saturday for a whole year she run a Japanese consulate . |
| 4 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 5 | In a typical year it supports some three hundred brand new or very young ventures . |
| 6 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 7 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 8 | It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers . |
| 9 | Naipaul learns that the only positive reaction is acceptance ; but in a whole year he does n't achieve it . |
| 10 | An unsuccessful fishing is a most discouraging event to the dwellers in these remote western isles : hundreds leaving every year for the east coast ; when fortunate , they will be able to bring home with them , after clearing all expenses for board , etc. , more than enough to pay the rent of their crofts ; but in a bad year they may come away in debt to the curer . |