Example sentences of "buy [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Varnom booked the pleasure cruiser , fittingly named The Elizabethan ( and which Virgin would actually buy some years later ) , reassuring the owner that the party was for ‘ some boring German synthesiser band ’ . |
| 2 | Fresh seed should therefore be bought each year . |
| 3 | Ninety-five marbles , including the famous ‘ Ares Ludovisi ’ , a beautiful study of a young seated warrior in repose , were bought that year from the noble Boncompagni Ludovisi family after their villa was destroyed to make way for Roman suburbia . |
| 4 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 5 | And that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 6 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 7 | When I needed some black shoes for the annual ASP banquet in Honolulu , Bodo van der Leeden dug out a pair he 'd bought fifteen years before . |
| 8 | But I moved into cheaper digs near the hospital and did manage to keep the second-hand Austin Seven I had bought five years previously . |
| 9 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 10 | Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey , it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits . |
| 11 | The figure was swelled by a £2.04 million contribution from Scottish & Universal Newspapers , the string of weeklies bought last year . |
| 12 | Let's also not forget the number of gifts bought each year for children . |
| 13 | The 35 million Christmas trees bought this year would have to rot for 30 years before decomposing in dumps that are already overflowing . |
| 14 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 15 | Users who bought this year can get a $800 upgrade . |
| 16 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 17 | No well that will be our that will be our Christmas trimmings that we bought this year . |
| 18 | The cottage they bought 38 years ago for £4,500 will be swept away as the last unspoilt corner of the village becomes an estate of 150 homes . |
| 19 | Maybe Mr and Mrs Lewis at 119 Cedar Avenue were not in their usual positions , snoring back to back in the bed they bought twenty years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ That iron belongs to a matched set I bought several years ago . |
| 21 | The fraud by International Signal and Control , the American defence company which Ferranti bought two years ago , was not revealed in the audit carried out when Ferranti made the acquisition . |
| 22 | Many were just beginning to see shares and unit trusts — bought two years ago before the crash of 1987 — regain those levels . |
| 23 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 24 | Owner Lachie Stewart aims to have re-built the 16th-century fortress he bought two years ago by December 1999 . |
| 25 | We have chosen the example of two professionals in their middle thirties , living in a terraced house in London bought four years ago with the help of a £90,000 mortgage . |
| 26 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
| 27 | Farmers Group , the American insurer it bought last year , showed a surplus of £205million in the nine months to September — and should now make more than enough money in the full year to cover the cost of its acquisition . |
| 28 | I have two Telecasters , a 1980s Rosewood Telecaster and there 's a brand new American sunburst Telecaster that I bought last year as a spare . |
| 29 | the same sort of thing that Noel bought last year when he saw one of the men in the village , using it to pull out a lot of weed from undergrowth , really |