Example sentences of "[noun pl] a year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 2 | ‘ It would appear that people are taking two trips a year instead of four and that the North Wales journeys have suffered as a result . ’ |
| 3 | The firm also says it is continuing to make steady progress on Iceberg , and that it expects to enter the internal beta test portion of the programme in July or August , and hopes to ship production units a year late , in the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 4 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 5 | Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago . |
| 6 | The plant will process up to 1.5m lambs a year approximately 5pc of the UK kill . |
| 7 | Mr MacGregor will be told that during the first 12 of the 13 four-week periods of the 1992-93 financial year — which ends in a fortnight — fare income was up 9 per cent on the equivalent periods a year earlier . |
| 8 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 9 | Unix licence revenues increased 43% over the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , with Desktop licence sales growing 35% over the prior period , and the two together comprised 75% of total licence revenues for the quarter , compared with 69% of total licence revenues a year ago . |
| 10 | Equally attractive was their ability to monitor water quality 24-hours a day , seven days a week , 365 days a year completely unattended , and raise the alarm when pollution occurs . |
| 11 | It was possible , she conceded , that Guy Sterne did n't spend twenty-four hours a day , three hundred and sixty-five days a year ruthlessly tearing apart other people 's livelihoods . |
| 12 | Can the Prime Minister remember those heady , happy days a year ago when his predecessor was tossed out of office ? |
| 13 | There are on average some 150 days a year when rain falls , and this goes up as you move inland into the Basque country proper , whose climate gets a little more extreme as the land rises . |
| 14 | for people who are caring for their , their family we 've , we 've also said , that employers should recognise that people should be able to get , erm some kind of leave occasionally from their work er , perhaps ten days a year when they find the person they 're looking after is is sick . |
| 15 | He does n't seem to have as much holiday as me cos I get nearly six weeks a year now . |
| 16 | WHY do TV companies feed us recycled rubbish for 50 weeks a year then put on all the good programmes at Christmas when we have no time to watch the box ? |
| 17 | It 's hard work ; 7 days a week with hardly a holiday and a target of 2,500 sticks a year just to pay the bills . |
| 18 | I CAUGHT my boy of 14 sniffing aerosols a year ago and he promised he would never do it again . |
| 19 | If there is rivalry between the firms it is forgotten three times a year when Stuart Johnstone , of Smiths , organises a get together of Glasgow booksellers and reps . |
| 20 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 21 | We 're , I am up at least , anything from ten to twelve times a year up at Lothian regional council or the district council in deputations concerning , anything concerning the Old Age Pensions Associations . |
| 22 | Probably times a year about six pounds . |
| 23 | ‘ It costs us thousands of pounds a year just to register under the EPA . |
| 24 | It 's likely to be several hundred pounds a year even for the cheapest computers , at least ten percent of the cost of the computer a year , and it starts straight away . |
| 25 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 26 | Four hundred pounds a year then was quite a lot of money . |
| 27 | So South West is is a hundred pounds a year more than ours . |
| 28 | ‘ Bert Weald 's on twenty pounds a year now , ’ he complained . |
| 29 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 30 | It certainly did for Simon Turner , who read a feature on these pages a year ago written by Godfrey Hodgson on his travels around the Michelin ‘ Red Rocker ’ hotels in the region around Toulouse in south-west France . |