Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walker estimates that the Alcan aluminium plant , currently demanding about 20 000 tonnes of caustic soda a year , will eventually need 70 000 tonnes a year . |
| 2 | That 's right and er at that year , that er time , we had a drop of five shillings a week and he had an increase of fifty pound a year . |
| 3 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 4 | Farmers produce between five and six million tonnes of surplus straw a year — with the ban on stubble-burning , they 're going to be spending alot more of their time dealing with it in the future . |
| 5 | The computer controlled system , which will also monitor emissions , will process 4.25m tonnes of molten iron a year . |
| 6 | Before Christie 's first sale of Belgian art a year ago , in which a 1930s de Smet of Flemish peasants made £275,000 , the highest auction price for the artist was £18,000 . |
| 7 | Members paid a fee of one shilling a year and one penny a week for each book borrowed . |
| 8 | They will have to reside there for a minimum of one month a year , but this may be waived for up to five years by an annual payment of $5,000 to the Bahamian government . |
| 9 | If those at the Tate do not believe that the acquisition of one picture a year is sufficient to keep its contemporary art collection up to date , the Government could tell them to use the powers in the Bill to dispose of works of art . |
| 10 | Where they stood , barely a mile from the aircraft 's final resting place , there was no escaping a muted collective anger — directed as much at seemingly complacent airport authorities and governments as at the perpetrators of mass murder a year ago . |
| 11 | Courtaulds España produces 62,000 tonnes of acrylic fibre a year . |
| 12 | This means that if the UK is to stay self-sufficient , some 40 million tonnes of new production a year must be achieved by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | The South African government has approved a project to build a plant capable of handling 500,000 tons of imported waste a year . |