Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 2 | During the course of a single year I will use upwards of one thousand Biros , yet I have never actually worn one out . |
| 3 | Analysis of Prime Ministers ' involvement in parliamentary debates shows that in the course of an average year they will participate in six debates and make six statements on policy , usually on the economy , foreign affairs , and government business . |
| 4 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 5 | And every Saturday for a whole year she run a Japanese consulate . |
| 6 | The cost of unsold or unconsumed stocks will have been incurred in the expectation of future revenue , and when this will not arise until a later year it is appropriate to carry forward this cost to be matched with the revenue when it arises . |
| 7 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 8 | In a typical year it supports some three hundred brand new or very young ventures . |
| 9 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 10 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 11 | It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers . |
| 12 | Naipaul learns that the only positive reaction is acceptance ; but in a whole year he does n't achieve it . |
| 13 | An unsuccessful fishing is a most discouraging event to the dwellers in these remote western isles : hundreds leaving every year for the east coast ; when fortunate , they will be able to bring home with them , after clearing all expenses for board , etc. , more than enough to pay the rent of their crofts ; but in a bad year they may come away in debt to the curer . |
| 14 | In an average year he and his 17-strong team of volunteers attend 150 incidents , mostly cliff rescues . |
| 15 | In an average year it 's about six to eight weeks actually expeditioning . |
| 16 | On , on , on past experience that 's roughly what the yield has been , on an average year you would expect to get that . |