Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Donna 's leader on the DTS is the same as I had 5 years ago ! |
| 3 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 4 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 5 | As I said last year , there were quite a few people out on the walkways , so it was very rarely you got anybody walking through . |
| 6 | erm , freehold parks , as I said last year we bought nine million pounds worth of freehold now |
| 7 | As I said last year at the Whitbread and Company conference on employee volunteering . |
| 8 | Erm all the figures there are as far as I know full year effects , so there are no half year effects . |
| 9 | And he all but confirmed this was his last match , saying : ‘ I basically feel the same way as I have all year , and although I am not going to announce my retirement , I guess that is it . |
| 10 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 12 | I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification . |
| 13 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 14 | Well as you said last year they really wanted something for nothing , for it |
| 15 | Er I think , I think that er our organic growth tends to be erm er er continuous and er as you know each year we 're spending erm substantial amounts er on that er we prefer organic growth to acquisitions because we avoid er premiums in the long run er frequently er organic growth is , is actually more profitable er but we are quite likely to make some acquisitions er if erm the right er strategic opportunities er are created . |
| 16 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
| 17 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
| 18 | Except I think just to emphasize one or two minor issues but the savings from last year , that was the underspendings from ninety two ninety three were , as you recall last year er used to support this year 's budget er those savings underspending are no longer available and therefore have been taken out of the consideration The staff costs for T S G schemes that are mentioned at the bottom of page five erm , the programme this year which is actually listed over the page at table two does erm indicate that erm we are now contemplating link road and bypass next year and staff available are needed to complete that work or fortunately we 've been able to secure a start on which enables some of the staff to be transferred to work on that scheme . |
| 19 | The blind woman quivered as she skryed light years outward through the warp , obeying the disciplines of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica , seeking contact with the mind of some other Astropath serving the fortress-monastery at Vindict V. |
| 20 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 21 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
| 22 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 23 | This is n't always possible as we saw last year and as we have been reminded , that was not an easy decision and in fact it 's one of the reasons that we have n't put extra money into the primary schools this year . |
| 24 | Use the same posters as we had last year , but put on , cover up and put a new on , use them up . |
| 25 | some of the taking exams as we had this year , they , they |
| 26 | A and perhaps instead of employing Mr last year er as we did last year to do management development , this year we could have er safety development as being |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I think I would commend LIFE to you , but it will be with the same conditions and terms as we did last year , with which they did comply . |
| 29 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 30 | Proposing this , Michael Watkinson added : ‘ As we paid last year , possibly they could contribute this year . ’ |