Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten . |
| 2 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 3 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 4 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
| 5 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |
| 6 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 7 | ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’ |
| 8 | But not many of the seventh years the year I am |
| 9 | Thirty nine days a year I 'll be having . |
| 10 | Oh yes you got er I think it was about er about twenty pounds a year we got er for for er r rock allowance they called it . |
| 11 | Four times a year you will receive a superb , full colour magazine called Birds . |
| 12 | One of the main problems at Clumber is erosion ( another is subsidence from coal mining ) , and with up to 1.5 million visitors a year it 's easy to see why . |
| 13 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |