Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Having enjoyed a remarkable degree of freedom for several years it was now hard to relinquish areas of control . |
| 2 | A lot of titles for this year you may think , but I 've only scratched the surface . |
| 3 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |
| 4 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 5 | The problem is , when you have conducted a piece for many years you have a knowledge of the interior musical structures that are closed to most theatre directors . |
| 6 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 7 | Almost every Saturday for three years I put on my black skirt , my white blouse , my newly polished shoes and my uniform white frilly apron . |
| 8 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 9 | The first three months of this year we 've had an increase in sales , but those have really been attributable to improved er t to stronger U S and Canadian currency rates . |
| 10 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 11 | Last year it was £9.5 billion , and in the first nine months of this year it is £2 billion . |
| 12 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 13 | And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’ |
| 14 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
| 15 | As a result of our extensive review of the design and build business in the early part of last year we have reinforced our operational and management capabilities in this area with the appointment of a number of experienced design and build professionals . |
| 16 | In the early part of this year I , along with the relevant Group director , visited the majority of Wood Group companies to report on progress and our future plans . |
| 17 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 18 | In March of that year he sailed back to Ontario where he bought a farm , the land of which is now part of the city of Brantford . |
| 19 | In March of this year they entered their first dog show at Ardingly and Tammy [ the brown one ] did quite well , and Mike and Anne were hooked . |
| 20 | Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving . |
| 21 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 22 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 23 | I know I will have that again this season and with the experience of last year I know that winning the number one plate for 1992 is a reasonable ambition . ’ |
| 24 | Although she has lived in England for 17 years she only married her husband , Qi Can Huang , three years ago . |
| 25 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
| 26 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 27 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 28 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
| 29 | In February of this year she was locked up in chains after giving herself up . |
| 30 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |