Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of contracts undertaken each year is approaching 10,000 deriving from thousands of customers in 50 countries , but 14 top customers in the UK and Europe still account for 70% of all business sales . |
| 2 | As you might expect from an investment plan that offers tax-free returns , there is a limit to the amount you are allowed to invest each year . |
| 3 | They had hosted a cocktail party at Kensington palace , for example , for the heads of all the major national clubs and associations with large memberships ; these habitually adopt a charity to support each year . |
| 4 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 5 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , despite disturbance , some young are successfully reared each year , and Ringed Plovers seem to be developing an increasing tolerance of casual disturbance by man of their breeding sites . |
| 7 | In place of these grand documents are ‘ rolling programmes ’ that are revised each year , and the even more prosaic procedures of periodic adjustments in response to perceived needs and anomalies when resources become available — the classic ‘ incremental ’ approach of local government . |
| 8 | The exact amount is decided by Parliament and usually revised each year to take account of the rise in prices . |
| 9 | The order is for the good of the seven million patients treated each year — and their 21 million visitors — says the Health Department . |
| 10 | Most of the 2.2 billion pet-food cans sold each year are made from steel coated with tin . |
| 11 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 12 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 13 | One image sticks in my mind from Brands Hatch that year , a race at which Ronnie , who was then lying just about level with Mario , had taken a notable pole position . |
| 14 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 15 | It replaces the present system , where appeals are dealt with by the Department , with less than 10 made each year . |
| 16 | Michael was going to retire that year . |
| 17 | Aggie 's husband was five years younger than her and about to retire that year . |
| 18 | From the evocative first ascent photo of Joe Brown and Wilf White in 1948 , which featured in the 1978 guide , through the Hard Rock treatment , the hundreds of ascents this route receives each year indicate its lasting popularity and quality . |
| 19 | Even though he has pushed through legislation to outlaw the ‘ sow pen ’ the government is allowing eight years for it to be passed out . |
| 20 | For example injured and dying animals are not included in the limit the US tuna boats are officially allowed to kill each year . |
| 21 | The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar . |
| 22 | Of the 500m tonnes of industrial and domestic waste that OECD Europe produces each year , roughly a third is recovered rather than incinerated or buried . |
| 23 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 24 | These ten men change each year . |
| 25 | No , you 're still limited each year to a maximum ten per cent increase on the plan . |
| 26 | Repeat each year . |
| 27 | AS WE reported at the beginning of September , an increase in the fixed price agreed each year between Champagne 's growers and merchants seemed inevitable , putting further pressure on prices that are already affected by rising demand . |
| 28 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 29 | Seventeen were completed that year , all without rudder pedals . |
| 30 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |