Example sentences of "[adj] [det] year [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme has been a lot better , a lot more stable this year and I think all round , the fitness in general , is going to be a lot better than it was last year . |
| 2 | Well , she might be sixty eight this year but she 's |
| 3 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 4 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 5 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |
| 6 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 7 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |
| 8 | Only three days earlier , however , he had written to another correspondent in less drastic tones : " give me a few more years and you should sense a new influence on classical studies " . |
| 9 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 10 | Now there are fewer each year as they suffer from dwindling finances and members . |
| 11 | We 're lucky this year because we 'll get Miss Gimlett , and she 's quite nice . |
| 12 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 13 | My form 's good this year and I 'm scoring goals . |
| 14 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 15 | felt all these years that I |
| 16 | I 've worked all these years and I 've got nothing . |
| 17 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 18 | DJ here can tell you that he 's travelled all these years and he says he 's run into my guitars all over the world ! ’ |
| 19 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |
| 20 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 21 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 22 | Er , it started in eighteen fifty six , had been currying leather for the saddlery trade all those years and it was then a subsidiary to and was making saddlery leather for them , but in addition , quite a large production of fancy leather for the local light leather goods trade . |
| 23 | If you wish to see the Grand Canyon in colour do so quickly ; ten more years and it will all be black and white . |
| 24 | It was very hot that year and he liked me to sit naked on a chair in the courtyard garden while I read to him . ’ |
| 25 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 26 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 27 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 28 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 29 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 30 | People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures . |