Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
2 | The first woman controller of Radio 2 has risen from the BBC typing pool , where she started 32 years ago . |
3 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
4 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
5 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
6 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
7 | Tom joined the AEA police at Sellafield in 1969 and then transferred to Chapelcross in 1974 , where he completed 18 years service . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 , |
10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
11 | 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 ? |
12 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
15 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
19 | In Christian Aid Week 1985 we raised £2500 more than we did last year . |
20 | This year we thought it right to reserve our judgment er , until the end of the year so we matched last year 's interim . |
21 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
22 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
23 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
24 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
25 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
26 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
27 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
28 | Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop . |
29 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
30 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |