Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've saved my club four and a half thousand pound a year . |
| 2 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 3 | The new League kicked off with a 25 per cent drop in attendances compared with the old First Division a year ago . |
| 4 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
| 5 | A dentist has warned that hundreds of his colleagues could leave the Health Service and go private because they 're threatened with a six thousand pound a year pay cut . |
| 6 | A dentist has warned that hundreds of his colleagues could leave the Health Service and go private because they 're threatened with a six thousand pound a year pay cut . |
| 7 | Councillor said that that that that hundred and thirty million could be funded over a period of ten years , at thirteen million pound a year . |
| 8 | These imports reached on average over 10 million koku a year in the late 1920s , equivalent to over 15 per cent of annual domestic production . |
| 9 | As you say three thousand pound a year that could be paid off a place of our own is is just I mean if I have to rent it well I 'll have to rent one . |
| 10 | Let's face it a war is the , the biggest single event that can increase technology in the electronics and radars two men on a fucking single budget , two men on something like a three hundred pound a year budget or something silly . |
| 11 | The same article claims Intel could reach its turn-of-the-century 100m-transistor chip a year or two early . |
| 12 | Directors , they 've signed one off sick , from British , er Vicker 's shipyard , and give him sixty thousand pound a year directorship . |
| 13 | It would probably be fourteen thousand pound a year you 'd work it on two hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 14 | At least one of them surfaced , rifle in hand , as an officer in the Palestinian forces to fight against the first Israeli invasion a year later . |
| 15 | Apart from her territorial gains , Britain got the right in the Treaty of Utrecht to sell 4,800 slaves a year in Spanish America which , at a normal profit of about £4 a head , might yield £20,000 , and in addition one British ship a year would be allowed to visit Cartagena and trade there . |
| 16 | Normally a practice would deal with just one infected dog a year . |
| 17 | Mrs Aughton wants the County Council to send Steven and Jason to the fifteen thousand pound a year private West Country Boarding School in Exeter which caters exclusively for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 18 | There she stayed , with the help of the home care service and a watchful nurse specialist ; one short illness a year later was managed by the hospital team which already knew her . |
| 19 | So again the trend today is towards people having at least one overseas trip a year and possibly two or three short break weekends as well . |
| 20 | The amount my ordinary bank charges forgetting any sort of bank loan , nothing like that at all , interest , nothing like that , just bank charges for standing orders to the finance company er are something like sixteen seventeen hundred pound a year . |
| 21 | It was summat like er I du n no , it was summat like five hundred pound a year . |
| 22 | Making himself an extra five hundred pound a year for er having been a naughty boy when he was a teenager . |
| 23 | However , we have no executive committee , and we have only one other meeting a year , erm , if you , I , I would like you to suggest that if you accept this restructuring of er , the organisation , and the fact that the members will not be attending other meetings during the year , you might see fit to allow the attendance allowance on this particular sub-committee . |
| 24 | WITH at most one new work a year to his name , Jonathan Burrows is hardly a prolific choreographer . |
| 25 | You are very important people , you are running one million pound a year businesses . |
| 26 | I think you 're allowed you 're allowed to make thirty pound a week profit fifteen hundred pound a year , anything over fifteen hundred pound on your business they got ta pay tax . |
| 27 | Well you pa yeah you certainly pay nine hundred pound a year out anyway , damage to the toilet seat and so you know , that 'll pay itself back in a year and , you know . |
| 28 | Where they smash into each other , at fully one resounding inch a year , in one of the primal dramas of the earth 's creation , they form the summits and the valleys that even now were beginning to fill our windscreen as we headed deep into the park . |
| 29 | Its R&D has broadened to produce one novel drug a year . |
| 30 | Cripps , for instance , admitted that he " was bitterly opposed to any such alignment a year ago " . |