Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 2 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 3 | It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year . |
| 4 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 5 | Cords Plc manufactures a style of corduroy trousers that it sold last year at £18 each pair . |
| 6 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 7 | As I understand it , MacAlpine is likely to withdraw the planning application for limited working it made last year and concentrate on pursuing its Interim Development Order application with Dyfed County Council . |
| 8 | It beats last year 's record of 47 ( in Atlanta ) by 9 . |
| 9 | Vienna , Virginia-based Legent Corp warns that it expects to report net profit of about $18.4m or $0.52 per share for the second quarter ended Aprch 31 , compared with the $0.44 before charges that it reported last year ; turnover will be about flat with the $102.5m a year ago : the news caused a bloodbath in the Legent share price , which slumped 16% , $6.125 , to land up at $33.25 . |
| 10 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 11 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 12 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 13 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 14 | Craine reckons Rabbit will do well out of its relationship with Univel , since it has 10 years ' experience of Unix . |
| 15 | It has this year as well I think . |
| 16 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 17 | Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire . |
| 18 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 19 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 20 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 21 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 22 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 23 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 24 | No there are n't , I had it done last year at erm , oh what 's it called , , Sidcup . |
| 25 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 26 | We had it built two years ago . |
| 27 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 28 | The business has changed dramatically since it joined six years ago . |
| 29 | , co-ordinator of the Open Day has been a user of the Jack Kane Centre since it opened 17 years ago . |
| 30 | Since it opened 2 years ago , 7 deaths have been attributed to driver fatigue . |