Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Surrey the ‘ amateur ’ W. W. Read was employed as ‘ assistant secretary ’ to the club for £250 a year — a post he relinquished when he ceased to play . |
| 2 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 3 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 4 | But as long the rent of £10,000 a year continues to be paid , council officers are n't bothered if Mrs Maxwell lives there or not . |
| 5 | By a lease under seal made on September 24 , 1937 , the plaintiffs , Central London Property Trust Ltd. , granted to the defendants High Trees House Ltd. , a subsidiary of the plaintiff company , a tenancy of a block of flats for the term of 99 years from September 29 , 1937 , at a ground rent of £2,500 a year . |
| 6 | The farmer receives a rent of £15,000 a year and is relieved of the need to do any work for it . |
| 7 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 8 | The terms were a payment of £325 and a ground rent of £1 a year . |
| 9 | The Prudential Assurance-owned unit has attracted a rent of £8,000 a year for a 15-year lease and has subsequently been put up for sale . |
| 10 | The estate agents negotiated a lease at a rent of £20,000 a year . |
| 11 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 12 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 13 | KALMYKIA is a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian federation with a population of 320,000 , no trees , a universal drink of tea mingled with mutton fat , and a 30-year-old Buddhist president who claims to control 50 companies with a combined turnover of $100m a year . |
| 14 | Until recently , government sales accounted for roughly 90% of O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt 's turnover of $10m a year . |
| 15 | Behr employs more than 9,000 people in the manufacture of car heating and air conditioning and engine cooling systems for a host of class motoring firms including BMW , Mercedes-Benz , Porsche and Volkswagen and has a turnover of £460m a year . |
| 16 | Mr Lamont 's Budget will give a tax cut of £100 a year to the average family . |
| 17 | Corporate Culture was founded in London in 1986 , but countered the North-South drift with a switch to Liverpool a year later . |
| 18 | Channel 4 , which broadcast the programme on Ulster a year ago , branded the arrest of Ben Hamilton , 25 , ‘ wholly unwarranted and oppressive ’ . |
| 19 | Flowers but no remedy at Clapham a year on . |
| 20 | This amounted in effect to a grant of £1,000 a year , the annual amount of the lease which was now extinguished . |
| 21 | A grant of £10,000 a year for 3 years was approved . |
| 22 | Students were on a grant of £40 a year and a primary teacher 's salary was £18 a month . |
| 23 | The Retail Credit Group agreed to fund the service when in 1990 the DoE withdrew its grant of £32,500 a year . |
| 24 | The significant point here was that if four hours each week were devoted to the teaching of Science , the School would become eligible for a grant of £150 a year , under a scheme recently introduced by the newly-created Board of Education . |
| 25 | For example , in one scheme for 35 highly dependent elderly people introduced by Kent SSD , home care managers were given a budget of £66,000 a year to spend on buying appropriate services and/or particular equipment to aid independence . |
| 26 | Last April the DoH gave the centre funding of £106,000 a year for three years . |
| 27 | Mind you , I ca n't remember Leeds getting the same kind of coverage a year ago that the Scum got last night . |
| 28 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 29 | Legally an income of £40 a year rendered a freeholder liable to take up knighthood , but as a result of inflation £120 was now desirable to support the dignity . |
| 30 | Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty . |