Example sentences of "of [noun sg] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also pointed out that for years waste from 7,000 tons of asbestos a year had been dumped in quarries near Athy and Drogheda . |
| 2 | Mind you , I ca n't remember Leeds getting the same kind of coverage a year ago that the Scum got last night . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year , making it one of the biggest growers . |
| 4 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 5 | Thereafter he was allowed only six boatloads of brushwood a year , to be taken out under view of the bailiff . |
| 6 | Targeted revenues could top four billion pounds a year and provide a war chest for good causes such as sport and arts , the treasury 's cut will be twelve percent of proceeds , leaving a honey pot of six hundred million pounds of turnover a year for the operator . |
| 7 | When it starts up fully in 1985 , the plant should produce some 500 tonnes of tin a year , one tenth of Cornwall 's present output . |
| 8 | Pakistan and Afghanistan together produce something like 1,200 tons of hashish a year . |
| 9 | Sharpness on the Severn estuary normally handles hundreds of ships and thousands of tons of cargo a year , but that all stopped at lunchtime when the dockers walked out . |
| 10 | It reportedly plans to extract 9 million tonnes of ore a year by the end of 1993 , in order to secure a contract from the European steel industry . |
| 11 | And with a fabulous climate of around 250 days of sun a year , tempered by refreshing sea breezes , this southern shore has become a paradise for those who want not more from a holiday than relaxation or sport or a combination of the two . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the new lift sector in the UK still has £400m worth of work a year up for grabs , from the smallest nursing home service lift to multi-storey hotel contracts . |
| 15 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 16 | The only exception in my case , is that I 've used a firm that does more than thirty-five thousand pounds worth of work a year . |
| 17 | Undeterred , the British charity Afghanaid is intending to try a crop substitution project in a nearby valley producing $50 million worth of opium a year . |
| 18 | In an area with around 250 cm of rain a year , it seems clear that if the hillsides are not replanted then silt is going to rush down into the river , through the sluice gates of the dam and into the new land , where irrigation canals might become seriously clogged up , and the fertility of the soil lowered . |
| 19 | Even in Oahu , where the solution is intense , the coastal limestone regions receive only about 1000 mm ( 25 in ) of rain a year and this would not appear to be sufficient to account for the amount of solution . |
| 20 | Dutch farms produce 84 million tons of manure a year , 13 millions more than the land can absorb . |
| 21 | During the time of desolation a year before , he suffered from fantasies . |
| 22 | Th , no he was telling the customer he was selling a million pounds worth of flour a year and that and I , I 've got a twenty first birthday er , you know , wi , coming up , party well after that . |
| 23 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 24 | It is on a Luxembourg motorway , and pumps 70 million litres of gasoline a year . |
| 25 | Greenpeace dispatches 33 million items of post a year in the US — to push the message that junk mail harms the environment |
| 26 | Des Greene of Minchem , one of two firms that export toxic wastes for treatment , estimates that he sends , at most , 2000 tonnes of waste a year to the UK . |
| 27 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 28 | At Michelstadt in Germany , just south of Frankfurt , BP Chemicals ' Plastics Fabrication group operates one of the largest mechanical recycling plants in Europe , dealing with 18,000 tonnes of waste a year . |
| 29 | News and current affairs is at the core of Radio Ulster 's 5,000 hours of output a year . |
| 30 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |