Example sentences of "[art] [adj] for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The award ceremony took place in the canteen on a December afternoon where over 100 retired and serving members of the work force were gathered , making it the largest for many years . |
| 2 | The expenditure negotiations this autumn are expected to be the toughest for many years . |
| 3 | Ministers expect the current public spending round to be the toughest for many years as the Government seeks to maintain its anti-inflation policy outside the ERM disciplines . |
| 4 | Prices steadied and ended the day largely unchanged after November traded down to £677 a tonne , the lowest for 14 years . |
| 5 | A further cut of 1 per cent was announced by the Australian Reserve Bank on May 16 , following the release of figures for the three months to March which showed the annualized rate of inflation had fallen from 6.9 per cent to 4.9 per cent , the lowest for nine years . |
| 6 | Does he welcome today 's news that factory output prices are the lowest for many years ? |
| 7 | Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics on Feb. 12 showed GNP growth down from 7.3 per cent in 1989 to 5.3 per cent in 1990 , the lowest for eight years ; officials blamed a collapse in the stock market ( its index having fallen by almost 80 percentage points between February and October 1990 ) , lower industrial production and falling domestic investment . |
| 8 | The world grain harvest during 1992 is expected to be the lowest for five years at 686 pounds per person . |
| 9 | The underlying rate , which excludes mortgages , fell 0.2 per cent to 3.8 per cent — the lowest for four years . |
| 10 | He spoke as the pound ran into fresh trouble despite a drop in inflation to 3.6 per cent — the lowest for four years . |
| 11 | There were only 23 arrests — the lowest for 20 years . |
| 12 | Mo has owned and completed several boats , including a Trapper 5000 , a well-known Starlight half-tonner , also called Sparkle and , more recently , a Sadler 34 aboard which they have cruised the Mediterranean for two years . |
| 13 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 14 | In December , air quality levels were the worst for 11 years , with carbon monoxide at 13.3 parts per million , and nitrogen dioxide at 243 parts per billion ? |
| 15 | Some climatologists say that this year 's El Nino outbreak could be the worst for 100 years . |
| 16 | The weather was the worst for many years , and the news from the Continent as the advancing armies uncovered first one and then another of the German concentration camps was almost unbelievable and quite horrific . |
| 17 | Mr Lamont was urged to act again yesterday after it was revealed the number of long-term unemployed is the worst for four years . |
| 18 | Arctic weather blasted through the region , leaving behind it snow drifts several feet deep and severe flooding — the worst for 20 years . |
| 19 | Floods danger the worst for 22 years |
| 20 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 21 | He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived . |
| 22 | Recorded crime fell in eight police force areas the rate of increase in violent crime was significantly lower than the previous year and the rise in reported thefts was the smallest for four years . |
| 23 | This was the ninth consecutive increase of more than 10pc but the smallest for two years . |
| 24 | Avalanches in the French Alps cut off ski resorts on Feb. 14-15 ; on Feb. 26-28 storms broke sea defences in Towyn , north Wales , and in Lemwig , Denmark ; high tide levels in the Netherlands were the highest for 37 years ; and the Thames barrier was raised to prevent flooding in London . |
| 25 | The survey shows that on some issues consumer confidence in the early part of last month was the highest for two years . |
| 26 | As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years . |
| 27 | The Bank of England was forced to signal an increase in base rates to 15 per cent — the highest for eight years — after the Bundesbank lifted its own key rates by a full point to clamp down on West German inflation . |
| 28 | The rise to 15 per cent — the highest for eight years — will inevitably force mortgage rates higher . |
| 29 | UNEMPLOYMENT edges towards the three million mark , the highest for five years . |
| 30 | The 1,030,000 figure — the highest for five years — came only days after total unemployment passed three million . |