Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded that he would either have saved £2,000 a year or that £2,000 a year would have gone towards any increase that there might have been in the cost of living or any increase in the standard of living of the family . |
| 2 | In September 1989 a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) representative addressed the ninth meeting of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) tropical forestry development committee , and was quoted as saying that official estimates of rainforest depletion ( widely quoted as 11,000,000 hectares or 110,000 km a year ) were " perhaps 60 per cent or more under the actual [ depletion level ] " . |
| 3 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 4 | It seems she saw her father five or six times a year and her grandfather less often than that , though the old man used to send her substantial cash presents at Christmas and on her birthday . ’ |
| 5 | The first task was to finish putting together the ‘ Darlington Drinker ’ , a local magazine which goes out five or six times a year to pubs around the area . |
| 6 | The letters arrive all year round though Praise Be is shown for only five or six weeks a year . |
| 7 | He delivers nearly 6,000 pints a week or 270,000 pints a year . |
| 8 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 9 | Consider this scenario which I see consistently two or three times a year . |
| 10 | During the 1950s , most of the Federations managed to publish magazines two or three times a year , composed of articles by both professional and voluntary members . |
| 11 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
| 12 | ‘ Two or three times a year . |
| 13 | The latter is a very formal process occurring usually two or three times a year . |
| 14 | If there is no-one nearby it is well worth time and money to travel to a good director , perhaps with visits twice or three times a year . |
| 15 | Mr Kundra added : ‘ He stays at the flat from time to time — perhaps two or three times a year . ’ |
| 16 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 17 | Its institutions would be confined to a Council of Ministers , meeting only two or three times a year . |
| 18 | T R E company Molecule theatre which came originally from the Mermaid in They came here two or three times a year for seven or eight years and we use to pack 'em out . |
| 19 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 20 | The panel , which will meet two or three times a year is : Bob Cotton , PR Director , Gardner Merchant ; Neville Dyckhoff , deputy director of catering ( support ) Metropolitan Police ; Michael Finkelman , senior vice president , Hilton International ; Mike Ward , catering policy manager , Whitbread Pub Partnerships ; Hugh Cade , partner , Touche Ross , GBS Division ; and John O'Connor , head of department , Oxford Brookes University . |
| 21 | I feel sorry for the Tories , they will only be able to go for a cruise around the world once instead of two or three times a year . |
| 22 | Nearly every church holds two or three festas a year . |
| 23 | A dealer exists to sell and since I can only produce two or three pictures a year the flow of the commodity is n't adjusted to the pace of the market . |
| 24 | We are hoping to bring out 3 or 4 issues a year . |
| 25 | We are hoping to bring out 3 or 4 issues a year . |
| 26 | The studies used as a basis for judgement are generally lacking in control because of the finality of educational decision making and placement ( in the sense that we can not return the child to an original or alternative placement a year later and be able to start from the same point again ) . |
| 27 | But if you read it in the way the UK does , you might catch only five or ten projects a year . ’ |
| 28 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 29 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 30 | A good example is Gunton Park in Norfolk , where the fishing is let by the day , attracting 4,000 or more anglers a year . |