Example sentences of "they do [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 2 | An interesting comment from the Arts representative was that ‘ it is financially impossible to train people in the same way they did 5 years ago ’ . |
| 3 | No no allowing for inflations , no underlying trends under the labour proposals people in Cambridge will be paying less hard cash now than they did eight years ago . |
| 4 | Counties such as Lincolnshire , Kent and Buckinghamshire can be expected to drag their feet over comprehensive reforms , as they did 20 years ago . |
| 5 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 6 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 7 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 8 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 9 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 10 | Never have the game 's laws undergone so radical an overhaul as they did last year — and never have they provoked such an outcry . |
| 11 | QPR are also charging the same for their shirts as they did last year — £19.99 — and although their shorts and socks are not yet available they are still among the cheapest . |
| 12 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
| 13 | McCallen and Robert Dunlop may again share the two 250cc races as they did last year and Moodie may lift the 400cc . |
| 14 | As they did last year , the big-hearted bunch have decided to donate their winnings to a local charity . |
| 15 | Erm , I mean I really ca n't , I do n't expect them to surge ahead as they did last year but all the signs are that , that , they 're doing very well and er , it 's a very well managed business erm , great cost control er , I do n't know whether you noticed recently that Meryl des described the erm , the management of erm , of A W as the er , I think it was the creme de la creme of the |
| 16 | They look a lot better than they did last year ! |
| 17 | it means nothing to them , what they did last year was sat there and got irritated and they kept like running about |
| 18 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 19 | Well at least they have n't done as many as they did , they did last year but they , it looks a lot to me |
| 20 | Figure 6.5 shows movements in the average age at first marriage ; women are marrying , on average , some three years younger than they did forty years ago . |
| 21 | There , tiger sharks have gathered , as they do each year awaiting this sudden abundance of food , and they rise with their jaws agape to seize them . |