Example sentences of "spending [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 2 | He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow . |
| 3 | He had no formal schooling but was tutored privately , spending some years in France under orthopaedic specialists . |
| 4 | I had the pleasure of spending some years in Queensland , Australia . |
| 5 | Thus Geoffrey Cowdrill , after spending 22 years with the TSB , decided to invest his future in an Athena franchise without investigating any of the other packages on offer . |
| 6 | CHEMICALS companies have made further cuts in capital spending this year and only a modest improvement is in prospect next year before a further fall in 1994 , according to an industry survey published yesterday . |
| 7 | Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June . |
| 8 | ‘ Now we 're considering useful ways of spending this year 's money ’ . |
| 9 | Unless anyone should mistake my purpose , I say clearly that , provided that local authorities , at the point of change in April 1993 , have the power to spend that which they are spending this year , plus inflation , not one meal on wheels , not one old people 's home , not one teacher — in fact not one public provision — need be cut . |
| 10 | Capital spending this year is expected to hit £300m of which £130m is likely to be overseas . |
| 11 | The threat of poll-tax capping is forcing councils throughout the region to lop over £20m from education spending this year . |
| 12 | Glaxo plans to increase research and development spending this year to £735 million , from £595 million . |
| 13 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 14 | Drew started his career at Methil Branch and moved to Laurencekirk in 1985 after spending six years at Kirkwall Branch as Assistant Manager . |
| 15 | The company plans to build a factory at a site 700 miles North of Moscow in conjunction with the Russian Kamaz engineering company and wants Mr Mukwala fluent in Russian after spending six years at Moscow University to help liaise with the local workforce . |
| 16 | It 's a very special house for Kaye and Max because they bought it after spending 10 years abroad . |
| 17 | The President would be a candidate for re-election , as would Miguel Trouvoada , Prime Minister from independence in 1975 until 1979 [ see pp. 27265 ; 30028 ] , who had returned to the country on May 30 after spending 10 years in exile in France . |
| 18 | After another spell at the Treasury he returned to Downing Street in 1982 , spending three years as Mrs Thatcher 's Principal Private Secretary , where his ‘ Rolls-Royce mind ’ impressed many . |
| 19 | I will be spending three years in Peking , at our Embassy , so perhaps we will meet again when you collect your return visa . ’ |
| 20 | Increased participation rates have occurred chiefly among mothers with children at school , and the immediate cause is that women are spending fewer years than before exclusively in child rearing . |
| 21 | Bishop Harris , was ordained to the priesthood in 1942 , spending many years in parochial work and then the testing apostolate of the prison service . |
| 22 | After spending many years in America , novelist Monica Dickens has returned to live in the English countryside . |
| 23 | After spending 17 years in Congress hurling broadsides at foreign creditors and defending state enterprises , Mr Franco has changed course . |
| 24 | The six Irishmen were released last March on a third appeal after spending 16 years in jail . |
| 25 | New ‘ career ’ of retirement after spending 40 years in the pottery industry |
| 26 | Innocent people spending 15 years in prison . |
| 27 | St. Bede 's will say goodbye to Mrs Ann Connell , who is taking early retirement after 32 years , and next month Mrs Christina Haslam will leave Ian Ramsay School and Mrs Maureen Dargue will take early retirement from Bishopsgarth School , both after spending 28 years in the profession . |
| 28 | He trained as a military surveyor , spending several years in Cork , but along with most other draftsmen was placed on half pay when the Corps disbanded in 1817 . |
| 29 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | After spending two years at the South Kensington School of Art , he went for a year to the office of the architect Sir Ernest George when he was still only eighteen . |