Example sentences of "[adj] year and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has run Bavaria for 30 years and the state premiership is in its gift . |
| 2 | The current volume of vehicles could triple , or even quadruple , over the next 30 years and the bulk of the increase will fall on rural roads rather than urban streets or motorways . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 4 | Certain areas , notably Oxford and Cambridge and the so-called Golden Triangle , have experienced major high-tech-based growth in the past few years and the government is keen to encourage this type of development as reflected in Department of the Environment Circular 16/84 , changes to the Use Classes Order and measures to liberalise planning controls over business in general . |
| 5 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 6 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 7 | The main reason for many Opposition Members feeling more warmly towards the European Community now than they did in the past is the record of the Community in the past few years and the contrast between what has happened elsewhere in the Community and what we have seen take place in Britain . |
| 8 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 9 | Two projects commissioned by the European Commission — the competitiveness of the Community 's ‘ tradeable service sector ’ relative to Japan and the USA , and the ‘ identification of the technical devices that will lead to new service activities in the next 10-15 years and the role which these new services might play in European society ’ — were completed in 1985 . |
| 10 | The project will be completed in two phases , one later this year and the other in January , 1994 . |
| 11 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |
| 12 | Pinnacle also has plans for clones of Sun 's superscalar server range when that comes on stream towards the end of this year and the beginning of next . |
| 13 | The dream to join the two ramps together to make a 32ft wide superramp was finally realised this year and the work was completed in March . |
| 14 | Further research has been conducted at Silsoe this year and the technique is to be displayed at the European Grassland Demonstration at Stoneleigh in May . |
| 15 | Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996 |
| 16 | Pc Barlow 's present dog , Ben , is due to retire later this year and the officer from Thorpe-le-Soken is trying to find a replacement . |
| 17 | Nuns have been prominent in all the large demonstrations which culminated in the March 5 to March 7 demonstration this year and the imposition of martial law . |
| 18 | No , but I reckon I was in the best year , sort of , for G C S E's this year and the year that 's just gone , were the best years cos they they do all the . |
| 19 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 20 | The reaction within the industry has been almost totally favourable — an irony which can not have escaped Altman , who gave wry smile as he received a standing ovation at Cannes this year and the prize for Best Director . |
| 21 | Operations will begin at the end of this year and the plant already has a £9,000 million order book which guarantees its capacity well beyond the year 2002 . |
| 22 | Prices in some areas have dropped by between 10 and 20 per cent this year and the number of sales has been half last year 's . |
| 23 | Home buyers approach the end of the decade seeing the value of their homes fall by an average of three to four per cent over this year and the prospect of an average fall of 10 per cent next year . |
| 24 | At one stage I had the same reservations , but in the light of the experience of the last six years and the credibility that the festival has given to drama with elected members , headteachers , and officers of the Authority , I am convinced that , at any rate for Leeds , this annual festival is helping to develop the quality of drama in the Authority ( pp. 44–45 ) . |
| 25 | ( For the BD the usual minimum time is six years and the maximum is nine . ) |
| 26 | With output in the construction industry falling to its lowest level for six years and the industry predicting a further 50,000 job losses this year , when will the Secretary of State stop his policy paralysis and start listening to people in industry who know what they are talking about ? |
| 27 | The agreements , under discussion since February [ see pp. 38115 ; 38443-43 ] , provided for free trade within 10 years and the possibility of eventual EC membership for the three east European countries . |
| 28 | If you save £50 per year for 10 years and the company offers you a return of 10% per annum then you will receive £9,147 — a sum that appears very comfortable . |
| 29 | High interest rates have driven hundreds of thousands of small firms out of business over the past 10 years and the loss of more than 2 million jobs in manufacturing industry has carried with it , to their doom , many small firms that depended on larger businesses . |
| 30 | Mr Roger Poole , the chief union negotiator , said they would now be seeking an increase in the offer of 6.5 per cent on basic rates , an automatic pay formula for future years and the return of overtime payments . |