Example sentences of "[adj] year and a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean Curtis , TSB Head of Marketing , states : ‘ We had entered into negotiations with Mark McCormack 's IMG company in February of this year and a couple of months later everything was finalised . |
| 2 | Three children have died on Cheshire 's roads so far this year and a total of almost 400 injured . |
| 3 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 4 | That 's an increase of more than two million pounds on the previous year and a rise of seventeen per cent . |
| 5 | Namely a 30.4 per cent reduction in GNP in one year and a rise of 500 per cent in unemployment and a 73.5 per cent fall in exports , due to the collapse of the eastern former Russian satellite state economies . |
| 6 | Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 . |
| 7 | The scholarships are now in their third year and a number of candidates have successfully completed a variety of courses . |
| 8 | According to FDR 's Splendid Deception by Hugh Gregory Gallagher : ‘ It seems undeniable that depressive neurosis — a state of reactive depression — was a condition of the last year and a half of his life . ’ |
| 9 | Anselm was now , for the first time since his election as archbishop in 1093 , free from any cause of dispute with the king , and the last year and a half of his life were spent in the peaceful routine of episcopal duties , disturbed only by the growing problem of the relations of Canterbury with York . |
| 10 | It was the only Courtaulds region to lift its profits last year and a hatful of new trading ventures will be launched there this year . |
| 11 | He won a silver medal for 5,000 metres at the World Junior track championships last year and a couple of months later he took fourth place — again at Junior level — in the World cross country championships in Boston . |
| 12 | The committee agreed to accept the proposal , recommended by external consultants , last year and a number of private companies , including some from England , have already put in bids for the service . |