Example sentences of "year and [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Monktonhall miners have secured a number of lucrative deals , including one with ScottishPower which is for five years and believed to be worth £10 million . |
| 2 | Allan Pursuitte , an American , was jailed for 12 years and ordered to be deported . |
| 3 | The main problem , said Ryzhkov in December , was an acute shortage of rolling stock : freight tariffs had barely changed in 40 years and had to be raised to finance a modernization plan for 1991-2000 . |
| 4 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 5 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 6 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 7 | But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 8 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |