Example sentences of "[adj] for the [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 2 | The risk of death is high for the first year of life , falls sharply to reach a minimum during the teens then climbs , especially from middle age onwards . |
| 3 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 4 | The rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest slowed during 1991 for the third year running , according to satellite evidence . |
| 5 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 6 | One plant houses the company 's IBM mainframe computer — one of the biggest in the state — and a CAD ( computer-aided design ) department has been fully operational for the last year . |
| 7 | One plant houses the company 's IBM mainframe computer — one of the biggest in the state — and a CAD ( computer-aided design ) department has been fully operational for the last year . |
| 8 | The present one left vehicle excise duties at £100 , unchanged for the fifth year running . |
| 9 | The new guarantee , good for the first year after purchase , would entitle consumers to free repairs , a replacement on loan or compensation if the product is not repaired within five days ( three for motor vehicles ) , the choice of a refund or replacement if the fault can not be put right in three attempts , or if the product is under repair for 30 days in any 12-month period . |
| 10 | Mrs Abercrombie has been incontinent for the last year and is unsuitable , now , for one of our houses . |
| 11 | Levels of pesticide and chemical residues in drinking water in England and Wales rose in 1992 for the second year in succession , according to the Drinking Water Inspectorate , although overall water quality remained the same , with 98.7 per cent of the 3.75 million tests complying with national and EC standards . |
| 12 | That has put some Names under pressure when losses incurred by Lloyd 's syndicates seem likely to breach £2 billion for the second year in succession . |
| 13 | No longer ( as happened in the primary school in which I first worked ) would the teacher responsible for the fourth year ‘ scholarship ’ class leave them as soon as the examination day ( in January ) was passed — going to prepare the third year ‘ A ’ stream for next year 's examinations with a diet of chanted tables , spelling tests , drills in mental arithmetic , weekly essays , grammatical analysis , punctuation , and worksheets based on past intelligence test papers . |
| 14 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 15 | The agreement gives London Electricity responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the systems while BAA will pay it an annual fee , set at £13.5 million for the first year , linked to the retail price index . |
| 16 | Moving to fine china , there was a very considerable overseas sales decline , particularly in Canada where there were lots of major retailers going bankrupt , but despite that , sales were over two hundred million for the fourth year in succession and we had a record December . |
| 17 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |