Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school , for disturbed children , drew pupils from all over the country , at fees of forty thousand pounds a year each . |
| 2 | Around forty thousand people a year die because of that resistance … even in successful cases , the drug regime can take it 's toll . |
| 3 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 4 | The UK has over 22 million cars , buses and lorries on the roads , driving over 300 billion kilometres a year . |
| 5 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 6 | Before the war the volume of grain exported seldom exceeded 30 million tons a year . |
| 7 | This is a relatively prosperous area , attracting around 30 million tourists a year , explains BP 's Pomfret . |
| 8 | In Europe there are 2 million abortions a year . |
| 9 | Ship-building was a great consumer of steel ; by 1914 Great Britain alone had as much steam tonnage as had the whole of Europe in 1880 and was launching another 2 million tons a year . |
| 10 | Designed to carry 11 turbines , each with a capacity of 450 kilowatts , the farm will produce electricity costing around 0.63 Danish krone ( 5.8 pence ) per kilowatt hour , generating 12 million kilowatt-hours a year . |
| 11 | Maxell , a subsidiary of Hitachi , plans to start production before the end of 1983 , and aims for an output of 12 million cassettes a year with over 200 jobs created for local workers . |
| 12 | It could , without an additional runway , cope with up to 12 million passengers a year if new terminal buildings were provided . |
| 13 | Its author , Roger Sedjo , argues that new temperate forests are absorbing at least 700 million tonnes a year , compared to the 1,000 million tonnes released annually as a result of tropical forest loss . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A dentist has warned that hundreds of his colleagues could leave the Health Service and go private because they 're threatened with a six thousand pound a year pay cut . |
| 16 | A dentist has warned that hundreds of his colleagues could leave the Health Service and go private because they 're threatened with a six thousand pound a year pay cut . |
| 17 | Six thousand people a year are slaughtered on British roads alone , an exercise in socially sanctioned mass murder which causes comparatively little comment . |
| 18 | The committee has written hundreds of letters to the council and DoT , held six open meetings a year , arranged visits by MP Michael Lord and visited roads minister Kenneth Carlisle in Westminster , said Mr Knowles . |
| 19 | On the northern edge of Aegina town , near the sea , Philip Dragoumis takes in 2,000 damaged creatures a year , mostly birds , half of which have been illegally shot . |
| 20 | Erm Heathrow has a massive impact on local roads already , thirty six million passengers a year arrive by road and of course there 's also the airport staff and freight implications . |
| 21 | Initially , the terminal will be able to handle up to six million passengers a year , boosting the airport 's overall annual capacity to 17.5 million . |
| 22 | A phase two Terminal 2 development planned for 1997/98 will increase that total capacity by another six million passengers a year . |
| 23 | The service is expensive ; estimates are that the Medecins Sans Frontieres are spending over six million dollars a year to support 20–30 districts ( ’ External Support ’ , 1991 ) . |
| 24 | The fact is that such breakages are very uncommon , and that the quoted figure of 2,000 tank-related accidents a year includes things like ruptures and hernias while trying to lift them … |
| 25 | Councillor said that that that that hundred and thirty million could be funded over a period of ten years , at thirteen million pound a year . |
| 26 | On Oct. 26 , however , the Collegium of the USSR Procurator 's Office was told that the " black economy " was still growing and was worth 40,000-50,000 million roubles a year . |
| 27 | If you get somebody putting six hundred pounds for holidays , I 'll be thinking mhm you know , they 're not going to be able to do a lot on six hundred pounds a year , but when I actually get to talk to them I find they 've got a caravan , and a friend who 's got a site in North er er in North Yorkshire . |
| 28 | The membership for a family would be twelve pounds a week , more than six hundred pounds a year . |
| 29 | Labour Councillors have set up over a hundred new Council Committee meetings , an extra six hundred meetings a year , and the hundreds of thousands of pounds that is gon na cost the people of , not the community charge payers , not the community charge payers , but those people , the elderly and the handicapped who are looking for services from this Authority , which the Labour Group will say , we ca n't afford to provide cos the Government does n't send us enough money . |
| 30 | On Jan. 15 as part of a three-stage plan of " transition to an efficient market economy " subsidies worth 1,200 million Marks a year were cut on children 's clothes , shoes and some other items . |