Example sentences of "year but [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 2 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 3 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 4 | The words belong to Paul Highsmith , who taught in England and Wales for six years but now teaches in the liberated zone of the emerging East African nation of Eritrea . |
| 5 | Like-for-like sales growth at Olympus was a hefty 18 per cent and Miss Selfridge chalked up gains of 17.4 per cent which owes something to comparatively grim weather in the previous year but also shows that mortgage pressures do not bear down on customers equally . |
| 6 | Prof Patrick Minford , from the University of Liverpool and Cardiff Business School , expects 0.2 per cent growth this year but firmly believes in a spontaneous recovery in 1994 , provided the Chancellor keeps his nerve and continues to control inflation . |
| 7 | Prof Patrick Minford , from the University of Liverpool and Cardiff Business School , expects 0.2 per cent growth this year but firmly believes in a spontaneous recovery in 1994 , provided the Chancellor keeps his nerve and continues to control inflation . |
| 8 | The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it . |