Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach recognises continuing activities as part of the School Development Plan , but forces justification of them each year . |
| 2 | This charity does magnificent work for children , caring for over 11,000 of them each year ; today they run 200 projects , about which I have written in previous diaries . |
| 3 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 4 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 5 | He was twice runner-up and missed only two cuts , one of them last year . |
| 6 | There is little argument that , other than by the Augusta book , Tom Kite — the world 's all-time leading money winner , twice runner-up in the Masters , with only two cuts missed since his first appearance in 1976 , one of them last year — should have been in . |
| 7 | It filled only 60% of them last year , a good season for Greece as a whole ; it is hoping to do better in 1993 . |
| 8 | Frankly , dear Lily , I saw too many of them last year … ’ |
| 9 | Most of the rest moved to Loch Laggan , after charges of trespass were brought against some of them last year . |
| 10 | Plenty of them this year . |
| 11 | NEC hopes to sell 1,500 of them next year . |
| 12 | The jury was told that although she was 73 , Lady Cross , a mother of three , had the looks and agility of someone 20 years younger and had fought valiantly for her life . |
| 13 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 14 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 15 | She came into Dorothy when I was on days there at the end of my first year . ’ |
| 16 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe . |
| 18 | This sees the end of my first year as chairman . |
| 19 | Doreen said : ‘ I 've been really lucky in that I 've enjoyed everyone of my 34 years with the company . |
| 20 | ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’ |
| 21 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 22 | It 's part of my second year , so yeah I know . |
| 23 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 24 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 25 | But at the beginning of my third year , took over from , he played saxophone , and was more interested in school bands and pop music . |
| 26 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 27 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 28 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 29 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 30 | My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje . |