Example sentences of "a year [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average salary for the nearly 700 players on the 26 teams tops $1 million a year for the first time . |
| 2 | Also at the LSE , Hella was guaranteed £60 a year for the first two years of her course by Professor Harold Laski , the brother of Elaine Blond 's first husband . |
| 3 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 4 | Strong words when you consider the market in cholesterol-lowering drugs has expanded by 34.4 per cent a year for the last five years . |
| 5 | Not only would winning the order mean around some £60 million worth of work a year for the next decade for Ferranti , but it would give a successful bidder or partner for Ferranti access to crucial next-generation radar technology . |
| 6 | Not only would winning the order mean around some £60 million worth of work a year for the next decade for Ferranti , but it would give a successful bidder or partner for Ferranti access to crucial next-generation radar technology . |
| 7 | BR is projecting to shed 1,000 jobs a year for the next five years , cutting the total workforce to 130,000 by 1992/93 — from around 200,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 8 | On January 29th Tesco launched a rights issue to help finance an investment programme averaging £900m a year for the next three years . |
| 9 | Another consideration is that the government expects high-technology' industries to grow by 10 per cent a year for the next decade . |
| 10 | ‘ Sugar is still a growth market and we expect it to grow by roughly 2 per cent a year for the next 25 years , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Lloyd 's long term aim is to open two clubs a year for the next ten years , a target that , if achieved , would give him 23 by the end of the century . |
| 12 | Tandy Corp 's Computer City subsidiary plans to expand in Europe this year : it already has superstores in Stockholm and Copenhagen and plans at least one more in Europe this year , although it 's not sure where ; Computer City — one step down from Tandy 's Incredible Universe fun palace stores — will open its 19th US superstore on April 1 in the Boston area and plans to open 16 new US superstores a year for the next three years for a total of 66 . |
| 13 | His decision was based on a prediction that South-East Asia 's economies will grow at 6.9% a year for the next four years . |
| 14 | Even now , with the world economy slack and poorer Asian countries emerging as rivals for foreign investment , Thailand is likely to grow at 7–8% a year for the next few years . |
| 15 | In four years , he has grown from 16 staff to 40 , and plans to add at least 10 a year for the next three years . |
| 16 | Claim twelve times a year for the next forty years , right up until retirement age , if they wish . |
| 17 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 18 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 19 | Council now meets three times a year on the 2nd Saturday in March , the fourth Saturday in June ( on the same day as our AGM ) and on the third Saturday in November . |
| 20 | For it neatly encapsulates the state of public morale in Britain less than a year into the fourth consecutive Conservative term . |
| 21 | Chrysler 's aim is to increase European sales to 100,000 a year over the next few years — a plan almost certain to involve right-hand drive vehicles for the UK . |
| 22 | Another £750 million is likely to be spent on self-medication , rising by 5 per cent a year over the next three years . |
| 23 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 24 | While it intends to press ahead with its policy of getting rid of 15,000 staff a year over the next two years , finance director Barry Romeril said redundancy costs would be cut by half . |
| 25 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 26 | So on current plans the reprocessing plants will separate an average of 21 tonnes of plutonium a year over the next 20 years . |
| 27 | Milk production was to be reduced by 1 per cent a year over the next three years . |
| 28 | According to estimates prepared in advance of the Assembly [ see also p. 38891 ] , the global average for life expectancy was expected to rise by four months a year over the next five years . |
| 29 | Reforms designed to reduce federal contributions to the health service by DM11,400 million a year over the next two years were approved by the Cabinet on Aug. 12 and tabled in the Bundestag on Sept. 11 . |
| 30 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |