Example sentences of "year [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where . |
| 2 | However , a good number of geographers have conducted recreational surveys in the last 20 years and a good deal of experience in the methods and techniques for conducting visitor surveys , in particular , has been obtained , so that it is now generally agreed that the following procedure should be followed : |
| 3 | The intention is that students can obtain and HNC after one year , an HND after two years and a general degree in EEG after three . |
| 4 | Jessie Hewitt , a childminder for 30 years and a regional director of the National Childminding Association , is well aware of the urgent need for a national registration system for all child carers . |
| 5 | There was a gradual rise during the NADOR years and a gradual decline during the three years since RIDDOR was introduced . |
| 6 | in 10 years and a great deal of that is due to higher productivity . |
| 7 | Dick is my next youngest brother , he 's been the village doctor round her for twenty years and a keen collector of antiques since he was married . |
| 8 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |
| 9 | His mother had been concerned about his weight for nearly three years and a previous admission for investigation of the cause had found nothing organically wrong . |
| 10 | The school librarian is provided with a monthly total of items borrowed over the previous two years and a running total of items on loan to each year group . |
| 11 | However , they are unable to sidestep the results that show that areas with a high proportion of young men aged 15–24 years and a high proportion of the working class have significantly higher crime rates — and both these groups have the highest levels of unemployment experiences . |
| 12 | For 5 guineas a year or a single donation of 50 guineas , the allowance rose to 3 in-patients and 2 out-patients . |
| 13 | He shall be assessed on the whole amount or value of that benefit except in so far as is shown that the benefit derives directly or indirectly from income on which he has already been charged to tax for that year or a previous year of assessment . |
| 14 | A cohort may consist of all persons born in the same year ( a birth cohort or generation ) ; but all women married in a particular year or a random sample of all cancer sufferers diagnosed in a certain month are equally valid examples of cohorts . |
| 15 | This reduction in the gap between supply and demand had been achieved despite a consistent forward under-estimation of the peak demand in every year and a consequential under-ordering of plant . |
| 16 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 17 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 18 | The result has been a saving on energy of Aus$90,000 a year and a sharp reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide . . |
| 19 | Fr Paul Addison will celebrate his Silver Jubilee as a priest this year and a celebratory Mass of thanksgiving is arranged at St Mary 's , Fulham Road on Saturday April 21st ( Easter Sunday ) . |
| 20 | Further analysis of the data now available led to a more practical objective of 10 per cent for the following year and a new list of suggestions for improvement , this time with more relevance to the problem . |
| 21 | Losses per share of 3.2p in 1991 were transformed into earnings of 18.3p last year and a final dividend of 6.6p lifts the total from 10p to 10.6p . |
| 22 | We had Su Friedrich , who 's a lesbian experimental film maker from New York here last year and a whole section of the documentary programme was devoted to her work and it was hugely successful , really stimulating and had a huge audience . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But it has been a wonderful year and a wonderful time for me . |
| 24 | Although Britain is still well in the red , the latest deficit 's down to one point one billion pounds , that 's the smallest trade gap this year and a big improvement on the July figure of one point seven billion pounds . |
| 25 | But the figures can fluctuate sharply , with a negative balance of 5 per cent reporting an improvement in March last year and a positive balance of 20 per cent again in April . |
| 26 | According to Amersham finance director Bill Ellaby , the purchase of Medi-Physics , which has already started to reorganise its business to eliminate losses before completion of the deal , will have a neutral effect on earnings per share at Amersham this year but a positive effect in 1990/1 . |