Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 2 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 3 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 4 | The one time I tried this year i ended up in some void somewhere . |
| 5 | The one time I tried this year i ended up in some void somewhere . |
| 6 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 7 | It 's ev , actually a little bit more complex than that , which is that the things that I used this year , I may not use next year , and I probably , almost certainly wo n't use two years ago . |
| 8 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 9 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 12 | I spent several years at the Institute before returning to the industry . |
| 13 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |
| 14 | ‘ I started this year as number three and now I 've played the biggest game of the season so far , ’ he said . |
| 15 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 16 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 17 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 18 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 19 | I thought this year was going to be a slow year but it has n't been , it just keeps going . |
| 20 | I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days . |
| 21 | ‘ That iron belongs to a matched set I bought several years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But if I 'm not enjoying it then I wo n't make the mistake of going through the motions like I did this year . |
| 24 | ‘ If he does , it would mean that I 'm still playing at 40 and I said many years ago that I felt that was possible . |
| 25 | So oh after I retired some years , we have a dinner every year you see it 'll be it 'll be coming off in December . |
| 26 | I suggested some years ago that |
| 27 | One piece of research which I contemplated some years ago , but did not actually carry out , was a comparison between people who do go to the theatre and those who do not . |
| 28 | Hence the portentous , and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum . |
| 29 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 30 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |