Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society was formed in October 1982 with nine members who , between them have 257 years of service ! |
| 2 | Shay and Brenda who between them have 90 years experience of selling poppies in memory of those who died in the service of their country |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , I realise I 'm the baby of the family , and a mere female — ’ the latter drew a bleak smile from her father , acknowledging a point of contention between them spanning several years ‘ — but I do n't see how just a fire can mean the end of everything ! |
| 4 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |
| 5 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 6 | And we , we normally have members go , we 've had as many as five one year , or was it six , erm , not always that many I think , was it three of you went last year , I think it was three was n't it ? |
| 7 | I have just heard that an aunt of mine died some years ago . |
| 8 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 9 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 10 | They can also be rated in kilowatts and on mopeds cos the regulation allow sort of what mopeds sixteen year olds can ride and I think it 's sort of something like seventy kilowatts or ninety kilowatts , it might be ninety . |
| 11 | If the same thing had happened after World War Two , when many of us had six years of war , we would all have crept under the table and wept . |
| 12 | Next Computer Inc is going try to stage a NeXTWorld Expo without leaning on Uniforum by holding it at the same time like it did last year . |
| 13 | One does n't have to insist that there is a direct connection between something created 4,500 years ago and something created in this century in order that there may be a valid comparison . |
| 14 | Her husband John is still trying to come to terms with what happened three years ago . |
| 15 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 16 | Seriously next year boy you 're gon na get one major awakening , you think this year 's bad for physics , wait to you start next year . |
| 17 | Damages for the loss of dependency ought to be such that she will have available to her to spend each year , free of tax , a sum equal to the amount of the dependency . |
| 18 | This was nothing to what came ten years later , no more than a mini-boom , but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them . |
| 19 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 20 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 21 | About what to do next year . |
| 22 | It failed because the frequency and intensity of the odour , which constituted the nuisance , was over and above the ‘ general background of oily smells ’ , and had not unlike these general smells , continued for anything approaching 20 years . |