Example sentences of "year and a [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is offering its 3,000 employees over the age of 50 a voluntary early retirement programme under which they will get full retirement benefits and a year and a half of extra pay if they leave the company and start their own companies in businesses related to IBM . |
| 2 | After a year and a half of desultory contacts , none of the parties to the conflict has shown itself able to give enough to elicit a useful response from the other side . |
| 3 | The most damaging feature of the August figures , however , is that they showed no sign , after a year and a half of severe monetary tightening , that the worst was over . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That 's an increase of more than two million pounds on the previous year and a rise of seventeen per cent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He did his preregistration year and a year of vocational training in general practice but then stopped working as a doctor until he opened an allergy clinic in 1982 . |
| 8 | 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 . |