Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 31 | Women currently outlive men by about six years , so that as they retire five years earlier they can expect on average to spend twice as long as men in retirement . |
| 32 | What possible justification can there be for that , given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year . |
| 33 | But children grow up and as they reach twenty years of age , the rights and concerns which have provided them with an education , and their families with a range of supports , begin to fall away . |
| 34 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 35 | Never have the game 's laws undergone so radical an overhaul as they did last year — and never have they provoked such an outcry . |
| 36 | QPR are also charging the same for their shirts as they did last year — £19.99 — and although their shorts and socks are not yet available they are still among the cheapest . |
| 37 | McCallen and Robert Dunlop may again share the two 250cc races as they did last year and Moodie may lift the 400cc . |
| 38 | As they did last year , the big-hearted bunch have decided to donate their winnings to a local charity . |
| 39 | Erm , I mean I really ca n't , I do n't expect them to surge ahead as they did last year but all the signs are that , that , they 're doing very well and er , it 's a very well managed business erm , great cost control er , I do n't know whether you noticed recently that Meryl des described the erm , the management of erm , of A W as the er , I think it was the creme de la creme of the |
| 40 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 41 | Counties such as Lincolnshire , Kent and Buckinghamshire can be expected to drag their feet over comprehensive reforms , as they did 20 years ago . |
| 42 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 43 | There , tiger sharks have gathered , as they do each year awaiting this sudden abundance of food , and they rise with their jaws agape to seize them . |
| 44 | However , none of these can compare with the unbearable sense of dread felt by every golfer in the nation as they watched this year 's final Major — the US PGA Championship . |
| 45 | As it takes several years for the effects of changing the number of trainees to become obvious the failure to implement Achieving a Balance is only now becoming evident . |
| 46 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 47 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 48 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 49 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 50 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 51 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 52 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 53 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 54 | And they were n't having him go over budget , as he had six years ago . |
| 55 | Just as he had last year in the pub in Kent when he 'd glassed the landlord — when the landlord had chatted to Jo while Jack was in the bog . |
| 56 | It was purely for ‘ practical reasons ’ , as he wrote many years later , that Hardy abandoned his fruitless attempts to publish poetry in favour of writing fiction , for which there was a lively demand throughout the 19th century . |
| 57 | As he has other years . |
| 58 | It 's a sobering thought for current Archbishop Dr George Carey as he prepares this year 's Christmas message . |
| 59 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |
| 60 | Throughout the book Eccleshall demonstrates an impressive authority and ease with his sources as he ransacks 300 years of Conservative thought to discover the meaning of Conservatism . |