Example sentences of "in a [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a reasonably good year like 1989 it was between 12 and 13 times greater , fortunately , perhaps , since the Soviet Union was obliged to purchase 40 million tonnes of grain from abroad . |
| 2 | In a very difficult year for the carpet yarn industry , considerable effort was invested in the areas of management , supervision and shift structures , reducing costs , meeting market requirements for faster response and tighter pricing , and increasing overseas sales . |
| 3 | If the agricultural seats are added to the middle-class strongholds , it can be seen why Conservatism was so strong between the wars , for the party could count well over 200 seats as unshakably safe and on 300 as reliable enough to be won except in a very bad year . |
| 4 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 6 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 7 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 8 | Sales and profit growth ( up by 17% and 34% respectively ) remain perfectly respectable on a second and more detailed viewing — indeed , the increase in sales was commendable in a very tough year for trade publishers — even if the operating margin of 6.8% and pretax margin of 1.9% were well below the promise of 10% held out when the company was launched in the optimistic mid-80s . |
| 9 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
| 10 | In an otherwise mixed year for the British sports car , TVR 's 1992 will go down as a year of achievement and of huge promise for the future . |
| 11 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |