Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Cold Brayfield husbandman , William Bateman , who was assessed at 10s. , left his wife ‘ half my crop of 5 acres of corn this year [ 1526 ] growing on the ground ’ . |
| 2 | Over 3700 acres of land each year are left available for other uses following excavation work by industry . |
| 3 | Southern Italy experiences four or more months of drought each year . |
| 4 | The EPA itself admits that pollution of drinking water is one of the four greatest environmental risks facing the population , causing at least 1,000 new cases of cancer each year and impairing the mental development of 240,000 children . |
| 5 | I make a habit of sending a certain number of cases of wine each year to individuals at any level of the company who have done something which I have come across which seems to be particularly meritorious . |
| 6 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
| 7 | Apparently there have been big extra bills for Saracen this year : this place costs a fortune to run . ’ |
| 8 | The EC had , among other things , ( i ) financed the construction of a road through one of Zaïre 's forests so as to increase production at a meat processing plant ; ( ii ) financed timber extraction projects in Equatorial Guinea designed to quadruple timber production over the next four years ; and ( iii ) financed the Carajás iron ore project in the state of Pará , Brazil , which had destroyed much of the Amazon rainforest , had led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians after the opening up of their habitat 10 years earlier and had consumed 4,000,000 tonnes of charcoal each year to smelt the iron ore into pig iron . |
| 9 | Until her retirement in 1982 the huge machine moved up to 140,000 tonnes of mud each year . |
| 10 | Previous to the CITES ban on ivory , Japan had been buying 130 tonnes of ivory each year , which suggests a massive local demand for the new substitute . |
| 11 | On average each person ( which includes babies ) uses an amount of energy equal to that from 6 tonnes of coal each year . |
| 12 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 13 | At present the company produces , and must tip , about 20 million tonnes of waste each year . |
| 14 | This way , millions of tonnes of waste each year could be pumped into the deep sea . |
| 15 | Germany expects to collect 200,000 tonnes of plastic this year ; it has capacity to reprocess at most 60,000 tonnes . |
| 16 | Sour note economic recession has said it would produce only 4.2 million tonnes of sugar this year , one of the lowest harvests in recent history . |
| 17 | Belarus has persuaded Moscow to sell it 16 million tonnes of oil this year — almost as much as the 20 million tonnes Russia will supply to Ukraine , whose economy and energy needs are much bigger . |
| 18 | Today , oversees the delivery of some 80,000 tonnes of barley each year . |
| 19 | The island of Rhodes boasts 300 days of sunshine each year , making it ideal for sun worshippers . |
| 20 | If you have a non-golfing partner , there are over 2000 years of history and sights to be seen in 300+ days of sunshine each year , so they 're looked after too . |
| 21 | Dr Ingmar Lindquist is the new Director of the Church of Finland 's Information Centre which celebrates 25 years of existence this year . |
| 22 | For example the Queen celebrates 40 years of rule this year . |
| 23 | The fog came back over and over again that late autumn and early winter , and the dark days before Christmas that year were very dark indeed . |
| 24 | Today , our country cuts down about 200,000 hectares of forest each year . |
| 25 | per annum in West Yorkshire , how can a Minister stand in the House and say that it will keep West Yorkshire 154 police officers under strength this year and next year ? |
| 26 | New York State Library had , in fact , 60,000 prints in stock that year . |
| 27 | Make no apologise ds ds to starting with education , the county council is cutting seven million pounds from education this year . |
| 28 | The forecasts for earnings per share this year and in 1994 have been revised upwards to just under 15% . |
| 29 | And at the lowest level in the EC , they are also fully consistent with the prospects for recovery this year . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless modern agriculture 's contribution to the energy crisis is that each of us eats the equivalent of approximately 100 gallons of petrol each year . |