Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 2 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 3 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 4 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 5 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 6 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 7 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 8 | Cos someone said that they went last year , George said they went last year brilliant . |
| 9 | In addition to court rolls the family historian may come across rentals which give the names of tenants and the rents that they paid each year at Ladyday ( 25 March ) and Michaelmas ( 29 September ) . |
| 10 | And they , and they got thirty-odd year ! |
| 11 | Oxford has four meetings a week … that 's forty four races … and they run all year round … they 're are 48 tracks up and down the country … so a lot of people are getting a lot of enjoyment … |
| 12 | Yeah , well Mike it comes down to experience if they had five years of |
| 13 | erm and ask them you know and say , and if they want two years , say well you know I 'm pretty keen on this , now what , you know I necessarily expect you to have me |
| 14 | They 've gone they 've gone more skimpy cos they fit last year . |
| 15 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 16 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
| 17 | I work , er unless they say next year just |
| 18 | But they divorced five years later . |
| 19 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 20 | Since Food Giants are spreading so fast around the country — they 've opened more than one store a month since they started last year — we 've put their claims to the test . |
| 21 | Infant mortality is phenomenally high , and many children die before they reach six years of age . |
| 22 | a lot about that when you went when they went last year . |
| 23 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 24 | Many feel that so called rebel tours such as the one lead by Mike Gatting in 1982 did more harm than good.Cricketers were accused of sacrificing sport and principles chasing sizeable pay cheques and on their return were unrepentant even when they got three year bans from international cricket . |
| 25 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 26 | Women currently outlive men by about six years , so that as they retire five years earlier they can expect on average to spend twice as long as men in retirement . |
| 27 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
| 28 | But children grow up and as they reach twenty years of age , the rights and concerns which have provided them with an education , and their families with a range of supports , begin to fall away . |
| 29 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 30 | Never have the game 's laws undergone so radical an overhaul as they did last year — and never have they provoked such an outcry . |