Example sentences of "being [verb] each year " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Satellite studies of the Amazon rainforest by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) show that the area being felled each year is far less than previously estimated . |
| 2 | The Schedule has now grown to a total of 5,600 sites in Scotland , with over 300 being added each year . |
| 3 | Abortion statistics suggest that around a hundred Down 's children are being aborted each year . |
| 4 | It added that on present trends , the number of children being born each year was likely to peak in about the year 2000 . |
| 5 | Fossil evidence for some of this early history is shrouded in obscurity , hidden in the vast stretches of Precambrian time , but as is shown in Chapter 7 more evidence is being discovered each year . |
| 6 | By the mid 1930s , up to a quarter of a million dolphins were being killed each year by Turkish , Bulgarian , Romanian , and Russian hunters . |
| 7 | Although the remoteness of the region makes accurate information hard to come by , in 1979 , even before the main expansion of the industry , an estimated 4100 dolphins and porpoises were being killed each year for bait . |
| 8 | In 1985 , a report to the IWC Scientific Committee revealed that more than 40,000 dolphins were being killed each year as a result of incidental catches in set-nets around Sri Lankan coasts . |
| 9 | The new system depended upon annual surveys being published each year , together with five-year plans , rolled forward one year at the next annual planning round.2 In this pattern of five-year plans , the first two were to be in detail , and the next three in outline . |