Example sentences of "be [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year-old arrangement for CDC to sell NEC mainframes into the US and Europe has n't worked out , but CDC says it is now working on NEC 's massively parallel systems which are due next year and are said to be based around Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC , although Ousley says the Japanese firm is ‘ keeping its chip options open . ’ |
| 2 | Versions for Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 and IBM Corp AIX are due this year . |
| 3 | Versions for Unix System V.4 and IBM AIX are due this year . |
| 4 | First products are due this year . |
| 5 | Often cancers of these organs are not discovered until it is too late to cure them : less than 8% of lung cancer patients are alive five years after diagnosis [ 2 ] . |
| 6 | Survival following a diagnosis of KS is much better , as up to 80% of people with KS are alive one year later , and to be living five years later is not uncommon . |
| 7 | Are each relevant year 's accounts covered by the auditing/reporting and dispute resolution process ? |
| 8 | Now if you do recall your first year notes , this is the relationship underlines a cobweb model , right that prices were based on erm or supply decisions were based on prices at planting right and we showed you that cobweb model erm farmers make systematic errors right cos they never appreciate the cycle there is a cycle to prices , right so they 're making systematic errors right cos prices are high this year as a result erm erm of plant a lot so that when the supply comes on the market next year right , prices are very low and you would thought farmers would er , would learn but prices fluctuated right . |
| 9 | ‘ Shaun 's twenty , the twins are twenty-one this year , an' Joe 's just turned twenty-two . |
| 10 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 11 | In February 1973 , when I first decided to make the journey , there can have been few twenty-eight year olds who were less fit for the task . |
| 12 | But anyway nineteen ninety three has been another successful year for the Garrick , which started , so far as the productions are concerned with the pantomime , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves directed by Jill her debut as a director , hopefully not her last . |
| 13 | and it 's just been another seven years you 've been able to work |
| 14 | This has been another busy year in Parliament , with major legislation affecting the voluntary sector , including the Local Government and Housing Bill and water and electricity privatisation . |
| 15 | Indeed , had he been some eight years older , he would have been born a subject of the pope — but the Piedmontese put an end to that possibility when they invaded Rome in 1870 . |
| 16 | ‘ Things are different this year , Meg . |
| 17 | October is however officially winter , even though it 's been warm this year . |
| 18 | Sea kayaks are colourful this year . |
| 19 | Here are 10 New Year resolutions to get you in the mood . |
| 20 | The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did . |
| 21 | On one television so they 're forty eight years old and they 've never been . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , parties , clubs , nothing that you would know about , since you 're three hundred years older than me . ’ |
| 23 | We 're lucky this year because we 'll get Miss Gimlett , and she 's quite nice . |
| 24 | if they 're married two years . |
| 25 | they 're all ten year policies . |
| 26 | You can stand here and look at all these trees which come from all over the world , and we 're open all year round and there 's always something to see , and the views are spectacular . |
| 27 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 28 | AEG AG says that three quarters of its operating loss of $125m for 1992 came from the microelectronics operations and the rest from its engines sector , and further losses are likely this year — it sees an operating loss this year of at least another $125m ; it says that its automation technology unit also made a loss on sales down by 1% . |
| 29 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |