Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 2 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 3 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 10 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
| 11 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
| 12 | This year we thought it right to reserve our judgment er , until the end of the year so we matched last year 's interim . |
| 13 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 14 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 15 | Is n't that window-cleaner coming more often than he did last year ? |
| 16 | The Fellow seemed to run his race , as he beat Docklands Express further than he did last year . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Well if she lasts another year and I 'll last another year , she 'll be older than me wo n't she ? |
| 19 | If you think this year was good , wait and see when I 'm 33 . |
| 20 | They 've gone they 've gone more skimpy cos they fit last year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | accident at service cos he wants all year four holding |
| 28 | I work , er unless they say next year just |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |