Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just hours after Mercury cut phone bills for domestic and small business customers , BT declared a freeze on the cost of all UK and international direct-dialled calls for a year . |
| 2 | She said thought , she 'll only only let it out about six or eight times through the year ! |
| 3 | We find a factory who 's not met its standards eight times in a year , and what do we do about it ? |
| 4 | You can go to a stream fifty times in a year , but you 've got to poke your head over the bridge — both sides — to be sure . ’ |
| 5 | Grazing , in any meaningful sense , is limited to the growing season — at best about eight months of the year . |
| 6 | During the football season ( eight months of the year ! ) the early turn men parade at 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. , return for a few hours , then re-parade 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. , and sometimes have to go on duty at 6 a.m. the following morning . |
| 7 | Powers were divided between the Congress of People 's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet , but it was the Supreme Soviet that met and conducted business for about eight months of the year . |
| 8 | Iraq had accused the UAE , along with Kuwait , of undermining international oil prices by exceeding its agreed OPEC quota of 1,100,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , producing an average of 1,800,000 bpd in the first eight months of the year [ see p. 37631 ] . |
| 9 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 10 | and I 'll say to him , right , okay , we 'll give you the five per cent r reduction for only eight months of the year . |
| 11 | In the first eight months of the year they were 36pc above the same period in 1992 . |
| 12 | The man receives the common weekly wages of 7s eight months in the year , and by task work the remaining four months about 1s weekly more . |
| 13 | Symons organized the selection of ‘ fifty books of the year ’ from 1926 on and , despite the end of his First Edition Club in 1931 , became an important influence in the bibliographical world through the foundation , in 1930 , of The Book-Collector 's Quarterly . |
| 14 | Thus tree rings are differentiated by the types , density and size of cell laid down at different times of the year ; varves by the gradation in particle size resulting from sedimentation of debris released into rivers and carried to lakes by the annual melt of glaciers ; and ice core layers by differences in dust content and acidity . |
| 15 | The well-defined rings ( fig. 7.6 ) are due to the difference in the cells produced at different times of the year . |
| 16 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 17 | Notice the varying colours of the trees , the grass and the sky at different times of the year . |
| 18 | With the advent of longer holidays taken at different times of the year and easier travel , people began to seek their entertainment further afield , but remnants of these past festivities remain around the county in various guises . |
| 19 | Be careful to recognise areas which have been worked-over by the whelks in the past , and remember that Nucella will feed at different shore levels at different times of the year . |
| 20 | The different life-stages of these species become prominent at different times of the year and at different depths ; many species have marked diurnal ( vertical ) and annual ( horizontal ) migrations ( Hardy and Gunther , 1936 ; Dinofrio , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | You may want to light up different parts of the garden at different times of the year as different plants and shrubs come into flower . |
| 22 | One suggestion is that badgers take advantage of the different temperatures and humidities at different times of the year , and support for this has been provided by Dr Roper 's latest badger research , a radio-tracking study with colleague Sean Christian . |
| 23 | The railways had to accommodate a wide variety of produce under different conditions and at different times of the year . |
| 24 | In recent years , however , there has been a move towards more intensive farming : altering the lambing season so they are born at different times of the year ; bringing lambs indoors and using special feed to make them grow bigger . |
| 25 | Charlotte has her old master , too , and she keeps fairly regularly to Bordeaux for wine , though at different times of the year she may go to Spain for oranges , or to the Canaries for new potatoes or bananas . |
| 26 | Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best . |
| 27 | In the peat-swamp forest of Sarawak , the commercially important Gonystylus bancanus ( Thymelaeaceae ) is distributed by a small catfish , the strange flavour of whose flesh at different times of the year is attributed to the tree 's arils . |
| 28 | The POND software , for example , displays complicated graphs on screen showing activity in the pond at different times of the year . |
| 29 | Because we reinterviewed the same people at different times throughout the year , we were able to divide them into persistent readers of Tory tabloids , persistent readers of Labour tabloids , persistent readers of broadsheets and , finally , those who changed papers or read no paper regularly . |
| 30 | The museum has two objectives now : to display costumes from its collection of 50,000 objects throughout the year ; and to reclaim its role as the preeminent institution of costume scholarship . |