Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [art] year " in BNC.
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1 | Before the regional elections a year ago he was constantly predicting that his party would win 15-20 per cent of the vote . |
2 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that about 30,000 people leave the armed forces every year anyway . |
3 | By the 1780s Bath and Bristol as well as London were the receivers , via Exeter , of the 500 vanloads a year which were sent from Brixham in Devon . |
4 | Born in South Shields , Scott was one of the 12 months a year men who played League football and County cricket . |
5 | The demise of the 12 months a year man is due mainly to the extra pressure , and greater financial rewards , in both sports . |
6 | BSAC spokesman Kendal McDonald claims that this compares with the 35 fatalities a year associated with angling , 39 with boating , and 44 with swimming . |
7 | Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have . |
8 | But not many of the seventh years the year I am |
9 | Busacher tried , as far as possible , to get the same musicians every year , those who knew , as he put it , ‘ our funny little ways ’ . |
10 | By these criteria many schools consistently ‘ fail ’ as they publish the same objectives every year . |
11 | My answer again is practical and comes from a further eight 30 min lessons given to the same children a year later . |
12 | The prize of five hundred pounds helped me start my business and as well as meeting the Prince I now send an outfit to the young princes every year . |
13 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
14 | Mr MacGregor will be told that during the first 12 of the 13 four-week periods of the 1992-93 financial year — which ends in a fortnight — fare income was up 9 per cent on the equivalent periods a year earlier . |
15 | The great age of Antwerp in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is inevitably the theme of the main exhibitions the year . |