Example sentences of "year [pers pn] [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year she spent £30,000 of our tax money on a poll which revealed that in Wokingham , Surrey , car park charges were not popular , refuse collection was good and the district council 's various patches of grass needed cutting . |
| 2 | In 1975 the total was £1149 , last year we made £7000 , and this year we have passed the £8000 mark . |
| 3 | And earlier this year we gave $10,000 to Franklin Furnace to show our support for their programme . |
| 4 | Last year we imported £13.7 billion worth of goods from the US . |
| 5 | At one fête alone last year they raised £179 but this year all her work could be in vain . |
| 6 | That year they spent ¥206 billion ( $1.42 billion ) on R&D there . |
| 7 | At the end of last year they had $13 billion and $9 billion of net assets respectively , according to Lipper Analytical Services . |
| 8 | Fifteen years ago , he won £6,000 — and last year he collected £3.60 . |
| 9 | He says that last year he saw people using the woods as a toilet , and jumping over back gardens . |
| 10 | Next year he supervised works at Havering manor in Essex . |
| 11 | Also in the same year he bequeathed £20 a year , the rent from the property known as Gassons in Snodland , to be used to provide great coats for the poor inhabitants of the same parishes . |
| 12 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 13 | Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany . |
| 14 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 15 | Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers . |
| 16 | Last year it gave £64,800 , one-third of the group 's local authority aid . |
| 17 | In one year it won 6% of the market ! |