Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Texas Instruments Japan Ltd plans to raise production of integrated circuits for use in liquid crystal diode display drivers to 450,000 a year from the present 100,000 ; it is looking for $500m a year in the things by 1996 , for 15-fold growth . |
| 2 | Professor Bruce Ponder , of the CRC Human Cancer Genetics Group at Cambridge and chairman of the committee which co-ordinated the study , said : ‘ This is another piece in the jigsaw which will help us understand the biology of two cancers which currently affect tens of thousands of women in this country and claim the lives of 20,000 every year . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 4 | No wonder the film won a standing ovation at the Berlin Film Festival : it is one of the best Spanish films for many a year . ’ |
| 5 | CCETSW has been under government pressure to raise the number of newly-qualified social workers to 5,000 a year , partly to meet demand from the shift to care management . |
| 6 | It was one of the best games between the North-East rivals for many a year and the 25,093 fans applauded both teams off the field after a nailbiting battle which hardly included a dull moment . |
| 7 | Between 1970 and 1990 there has been an average total increase of general practitioners by 500 a year ( 1.5% ) . |
| 8 | It was expected that identifying and resurfacing slippery roads would reduce skidding accidents by 1800 a year . |
| 9 | Editor , — Stephen Brearley 's editorial agreeing with the Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee 's recommendations to increase annual intake of medical students by almost 500 a year and to increase total numbers of NHS doctors by 1000 a year ( 1% ) to 112000 by 2010 seem to be based on no reliable evidence . |
| 10 | Estimates of the number of returning nurses are difficult to gauge accurately on an annual yearly basis , although the UKCC has placed an educated guess through manpower enquiries at 2500 a year . |
| 11 | No more letters for many a year now from Miss Mitford , none from Miss Trepsack , none from Mrs Jameson , who had always been so kind to her . |
| 12 | Physically at least , this is one of the cleanest campaigns for many a year . |
| 13 | Fearful of damnation , and angry at the priest 's reproof , she went out of her mind , and was ‘ wondrously vexed and laboured with spirits for half a year , eight weeks and odd days ’ . |