Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps .
2 If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing ,
3 We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again .
4 Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door .
5 We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates .
6 How could we have guessed 10 years ago that there would be a video shop on every street corner ?
7 We 've waited three years .
8 I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people .
9 ‘ We need £30,000 in order to maintain the level of service we 've achieved this year , with four holidays involving 172 children .
10 We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities .
11 we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent .
12 What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it .
13 We 're passed that now we 're trying to give people more direction , get them involved er this is the first year we 've able to do it in a sense , properly cos it 's been the first year , with all due respect to all the work you 've done in the past , we 've got five year tutors .
14 It 's two years since we 've done it so we 've got two years ’ worth of playing and they 've got two years ' worth of applause . ’
15 We 've got seventh year , sorted erm I think we 've got ta look at the assessment .
16 Now we 've got this year , certainly it will succeed in years and pay , pay the interest off , that will re result in a any more money your own debt .
17 My view is that we 've got forty years to think about it and we can surely think ahead .
18 We 've got twenty year 's experience thousands of ads on our on our records .
19 We 're taking people on in the copy group and we 've got twenty years ' worth of adverts .
20 We 've spent two years meeting , talking , going to other meetings , we should get involved in doing something practical .
21 We 've had five years here and nothing 's really been clamped down on us — we must do this and we must do that .
22 But I mean we 've had five years of bad stockmarket performances , and in cyclical er economics I think if you look at the sort of post-war boom
23 We 've had five years of madness — it 's about time we had some sanity in our lives ! ’
24 ‘ People forget that we 've had forty years of scientific advance since the first atom bomb was dropped .
25 By then , he says , ‘ we had done 1.5 years of study and we were saying , what the hell are we going to do with this ?
26 It seemed ominous that the hotel was in Glasgow 's George Square , and we had met six-and-a-half years previously in George Square in Edinburgh .
27 I thing the money we received from one or two gigs equalled what we had earned all year in Britain .
28 If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’
29 We had expected 25 years at the most .
30 The Sid Valley Talking Newspaper , we gave a hundred and fifty pound before and we have done each year .
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