Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles and Liz , naturally , did not construct the notion of a New Year 's Eve party in this spirit , as a portent , as a symbol , as a landmark in the journey of their lives . |
| 2 | The apparently irreversible trend in the insurance industry , in common with others in the financial services sector , to move away from high-risk , low-return business and focus on specialised , value-added lines ( stop-loss insurance , financial insurance to smooth the impact of a single year 's sudden loss on the balance sheet with repayment over subsequent years , and so on ) , means that organisations must look on insurance almost as a last resort after exhausting all the possibilities of minimising risk cost-effectively in-house . |
| 3 | Obviously it had n't been planted by Marshall ; the weed was the remains of a previous year 's crop . |
| 4 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 5 | The growth rate in original currencies was 6.9% , reflecting the impact of successful rating action in all major markets as well as the inclusion of a full year 's premiums from the US-based Hawkeye-Security Group , acquired in July 1991 . |
| 6 | Pre-tax profits for the six months to October 1 came in at £134,000 as against a full year 's loss of £128,000 and a previous half time profit of £258,000 . |
| 7 | The next day Minton , in marvellous form and coruscating with wit , took a crowd of friends to the Gargoyle for a New Year 's Day lunch . |
| 8 | Stocks of ingredient X are currently available for a whole year 's production of Abrasive , and are valued at their original cost . |
| 9 | Welding trainee Paul Marlborough , 21 , of Moore Street , Hartlepool , said : ‘ The scheme has been told its funding is to be cut to £39,000 for a full year 's training , but it needs much more than that to survive . |
| 10 | He said he had visited Sara Hart on 1 January as a New Year 's greeting . |
| 11 | CHANNEL 4 steals a march on GMTV 's debut tomorrow by serving up their own breakfast show tonight as a New Year 's Eve special . |
| 12 | ‘ About a whole year 's robberies from here ? ’ |
| 13 | The only problem was convincing them they could n't follow up with a New Year 's knees-up a week later . |
| 14 | Without that Dublin goal they would still be languishing in the lower reaches , their morale severely affected since their championship challenge disintegrated with a New Year 's Day thrashing by QPR at Old Trafford . |
| 15 | Yorkshire Television , the independent broadcaster and programme maker , brightened shareholders ' screens yesterday with a full year 's pre-tax profits up from £15.64million to £18million and a dividend payout of 11.3p for the year as against 9.6p last time . |
| 16 | Turnover from the instruments division , including a full year 's contribution from Goring Kerr and a seven month 's contribution from Goring Kerr Interest , increased 62% to £32.2m . |
| 17 | Sales in 1992 increased to IR£76.3 million , despite a generally hostile economic environment At constant exchange rates , sales increased by 9 per cent which benefited from a full year 's contribution from the new Marquis brand . |
| 18 | If you register immediately you 'll benefit from a whole year 's worth of tax free interest for what 's calculated on April the fifth . |
| 19 | Perhaps those of you , my readers , who are involved , like me , in curriculum design , might join me in a New Year 's resolution to keep our wishful thinking in check and face reality more consistently . |
| 20 | In a New Year 's Day report he told the PDPA that he did not wish ‘ to exclude from the process of national reconciliation the various political groupings of a centrist or monarchist persuasion or the leaders of armed anti-government groupings operating abroad ’ . |
| 21 | Turning to Westminster Press the cost Westminster Press in a full year er , will amount to three point eight million pounds and er . |
| 22 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 23 | If I braked sharply , I could go to a New Year 's Eve party as Van Gogh . |
| 24 | Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git . |
| 25 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 26 | Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure . |
| 27 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 28 | Mr Johnson gave the two girls up to six allergy tablets , after a row with his wife at a New Year 's party . |