Example sentences of "a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | A galactic year , for example , is the time the galaxy takes to rotate once completely-all the outermost stars orbiting the centre . |
| 2 | yyyy is a four-digit year specification e.g. 31-JAN-1990 , 24-DEC-1999 , etc . |
| 3 | yyyy is a four-digit year specification |
| 4 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |
| 5 | He went through his medical test in the morning , signed a three-and-a-half year contract , then announced : ‘ First I have to win my place . |
| 6 | Twenty-five years ago , that team of scientists and electronics engineers charged with the awesome task of producing such a piece of equipment , included a thirty-seven year old Texan electronics engineer , whose star was rapidly rising in another quarter . |
| 7 | Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period . |
| 8 | What Aragon could be like without water appears in the Monegros : a complete desert in a dry year , it could , with winter rains , give the heaviest yields in Spain . |
| 9 | The third party claims have lessened with the retreat from the Convention for the Regulation of the Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities , and the acceptance by the parties at Madrid in 1991 of a fifty year ban on activities relating to mineral resources other than scientific research . |
| 10 | This will be particularly important in our efforts to explore the ways in which the private traumas of married couples have found their way on to the public agendas of churchmen , politicians , policy makers and others over a fifty year period . |
| 11 | The US is in agreement with a fifty year ban , but at the second round of talks , demanded changes in the procedures that come into play after that time . |
| 12 | Erm if ever I say if ever get a fifty year old in front of me I say , Hey let's prove them wrong . |
| 13 | Today 's announcment ends a fifty year association between Upper Heyford and the American Airforce . |
| 14 | NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO just might go down as a memorable year in the history of Britain , if not the rest of the world . |
| 15 | As Captain of Stoddard Golf Club , I would like to thank all the members of the committee who have worked so hard to make it such a memorable year . |
| 16 | The Middlesbrough goalkeeper , an ever-present in the side until the promotion-clinching last match of the season against Wolves at Molineux , has enjoyed a memorable year . |
| 17 | Penny , who was the only astrologer accurately to predict the current crisis , five years ago in her book Romancing The Stars , says Diana 's astrological chart predicts that 1993 will be a devastating year for her , but just as bad for the rest of the royals . |
| 18 | Mrs Margaret Johnson , a 32 year old housewife living in Sutton Coldfield , came on like a country western singer . |
| 19 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 20 | The woman has been identified as a 32 year old from the Bristol area , who 'd been missing since early on Friday , but detectives wo n't name her until her family have been told . |
| 21 | IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships . |
| 22 | This , though , is not a normal year , or what many once thought of as normal . |
| 23 | San Diego has now had twice as much rain this year as in the whole of a normal year . |
| 24 | If that was the argument in a normal year , it came in spades in 1981 . |
| 25 | Like the Teal , the Shoveler has undoubtedly suffered from the improved drainage of many inland marshes , and the present winter population does not often exceed 200–400 birds in a normal year . |
| 26 | In a normal year , Renault 's achievement would have stood out . |
| 27 | In a normal year , only a quarter of the BBC 's performing arts output is specially commissioned . |
| 28 | In a normal year , he says , estate agents expect a quiet start , followed by a good spring and autumn , a quiet summer and a poor winter . |
| 29 | 2 Compile a general list of media which are likely to be contacted frequently during a normal year . |
| 30 | Whereas in a normal year the king 's usual revenue barely met his obligations , in years of hostility expenditure outran income at an alarming rate . |