Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere in the capital , the Royal Lyceum claims it is recovering after last year 's £1.2 million debt crisis and ticket sales which were 10 to 15 per cent below target . |
| 2 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 3 | Bending the rules would allow the Government to claim it is sticking by next year 's public spending ceiling of £244.5bn while actually allowing public borrowing to rise . |
| 4 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 5 | BRAIN surgeon Fred Nath is competing in this year 's gruelling Yorkshire Moors Race in a bid to help two handicapped Romanian children . |
| 6 | We are delighted that Anke Rohlfs , guest teacher at our 1982 Summer Course , is returning for this year 's International Summer course , and once again we are able to use the facilities at Green Park Centre , Aston Clinton , Bucks . |
| 7 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |
| 8 | It is getting toward 70 years since I attended the lectures of that egregious humbug ‘ Tubby ’ Radcliffe at the Tech ( now UMIST ) . |
| 9 | The equipment industry in Switzerland is re-awakening after 15 years . |
| 10 | A group of IBOA office staff pictured at a farewell function for Dennis Corrigan who is leaving after 15 years manning the door of ‘ 93 ’ . |
| 11 | York is resigning after 14 years with the automaker . |
| 12 | Old world and new SIR Kenneth James , formerly our man in Mexico , is retiring after five years as director-general of Canning House , the institute in Belgrave Square that maintains good relations with Latin America and the Iberian peninsula . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough 's ‘ Mr Movie ’ is retiring after 40 years in the cinema business . |
| 14 | He will succeed former Finance Minister Richie Ryan , who is retiring after seven years as a Euro auditor . |
| 15 | Lee Gaug , Goodyear 's feisty , pipe-smoking international racing manager , is retiring after 24 years — 13 in F1 — with the tyre company . |