Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , I would say I now have a far stronger squad than I had last year and it is n't costing as much . ’ |
| 3 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 4 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 5 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 6 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 7 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 8 | This year we thought it right to reserve our judgment er , until the end of the year so we matched last year 's interim . |
| 9 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 10 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 11 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 12 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 13 | Well she , like I say next year , if they 're not paying double time she 's gon na get no one to work is she ? |
| 14 | They 've gone they 've gone more skimpy cos they fit last year . |
| 15 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
| 16 | Until it slipped last year , British manufacturers ' share of the volume of world exports had been broadly stable at 7% since 1981 , after falling continuously since the 1950s . |
| 17 | He is popular in Japan , more like a movie star than a politician ( partly because his brother , Yujiro , was a real film star until he died last year ) . |
| 18 | The competition will be judged by Alan Amey , who was an apprentice at the John Makepeace Workshops in 1976 , and then head craftsman until he left last year . |
| 19 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |
| 20 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 21 | I work , er unless they say next year just |
| 22 | Since Food Giants are spreading so fast around the country — they 've opened more than one store a month since they started last year — we 've put their claims to the test . |
| 23 | We can all get a chuckle over that the fact that Microsoft is going to refuse to renew the cross-licence it has with IBM for Windows and NT after it expires next year . |
| 24 | Ex-major Lorenzo Peres , 37 , tried in vain to persuade the Cuban authorities to let his wife and two children leave after he defected last year . |
| 25 | After he won last year Tolstikov , who also won the World Cup gold medal because the race was run in conjunction with the London event , had to hand over 20 per cent to the then Soviet federation . |
| 26 | Apolitical and never the holder of any union office , Kirkland had 36 years as a Glasgow ambulanceman before he retired last year . |
| 27 | At erm , summer camp , when I came last year as well , there were sisters , and the oldest one was about twelve , the next one was about ten , and the next one was about eight and they they were half cast , I 'm not qu quite sure , the their mother was sort of , she 's dark , she 's sort of half cast , and they 've got , they all very very attractive girls , with such lovely hair , just corkscrew , it 's really lovely , and they come out the erm , swimming pool and they bring their their erm , shampoo and their conditioner with them , and do I ca n't just see this the family look . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't win anything when I entered last year , so I adapted the recipe then heard I was in the North of England finals . |
| 29 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 30 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |