Example sentences of "in a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Binomial distributions deal with a fixed population , each of whose members may possess only one of two possible elements ( the thesis is either cited in one year , or it is not ) , and the successive values of these elements are not dependent on the previous values ( a citation in one year does not imply a lack of citation in a following year ) . |
| 2 | In a final year paper you just put a line through that and say , that does n't answer the question . |
| 3 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 4 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 5 | In a typical year it supports some three hundred brand new or very young ventures . |
| 6 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 7 | Birmingham students come from all over the world — in a typical year , more than 1000 students from 100 countries in addition to the 9000 from the UK . |
| 8 | IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships . |
| 9 | If that was the argument in a normal year , it came in spades in 1981 . |
| 10 | Like the Teal , the Shoveler has undoubtedly suffered from the improved drainage of many inland marshes , and the present winter population does not often exceed 200–400 birds in a normal year . |
| 11 | In a normal year , Renault 's achievement would have stood out . |
| 12 | In a normal year , only a quarter of the BBC 's performing arts output is specially commissioned . |
| 13 | In a normal year , he says , estate agents expect a quiet start , followed by a good spring and autumn , a quiet summer and a poor winter . |
| 14 | Whereas in a normal year the king 's usual revenue barely met his obligations , in years of hostility expenditure outran income at an alarming rate . |
| 15 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 16 | In a normal year ( that is , not a boom year or a slump year ) , we should expect aggregate transitory income to be zero , so that aggregate measured and permanent incomes would be equal . |
| 17 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 18 | Today 's twenty four hour strike is the latest in a thirteen year long battle over pay . |
| 19 | The populations of two towns A and B and the number of persons who die in them in a certain year are given in the table below . |
| 20 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 21 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 22 | The Melbourne Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group did not find a difference in urinary albumin excretion between nifedipine and perindopril in a one year randomised study including 53 patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes with or without hypertension . |
| 23 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 24 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |
| 25 | Not in a million years . |
| 26 | You 'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country . |
| 27 | Not in a million years . |
| 28 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 29 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 30 | It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . |