Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 3 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 4 | So what with Carole 's soft voice and that we did n't get a lot of and it seemed as though it was well like that , several times I went last year and I really got a bit cheesed off . |
| 5 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 6 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 7 | organizes the games to be built and with a team of three — and — is responsible for the amazing new constructions which appear each year . |
| 8 | He became a keen supporter of the BAAS , founding a club which gathered each year at the meetings , for conviviality and science . |
| 9 | WACC is supporting ANARAP 's initial training programme which starts this year . |
| 10 | ‘ Every branch of literature , reading , orthography , recitation , grammar and composition together with British history forms the prominent part of the system ; while the entire curriculum of study which occupies six years embraces the Latin , Greek , French , Russian and German languages , history , geography , physiology , chemistry , natural philosophy , zoology , botany , algebra , geometry , drawing and painting , fencing , gymnastics and military drill . |
| 11 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 12 | ( The highspot for the 600,000 fans who flock each year to the Graceland mansion shrine is the famous jungle room , where their idol used to watch three televised football games at once ) . |
| 13 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 14 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 15 | He 's gon na wait till the copper price zooms up again , then he 'll be back , he never did , order those aluminum rods you know last year . |
| 16 | The walk combines a fun day out with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 17 | The sponsored walk combines a fun day out for all of the family ( especially the four-legged members ! ) with the important business of raising funds to help the millions of animals who suffer each year in laboratory tests . |
| 18 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 19 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 20 | The Brian Whitmee Singers ' Competition has been established in memory of the former organiser of Richmond Folk Club who died last year from cancer , aged 44 . |
| 21 | Is the any to compare the the entries we have this year with the entries we got last year . |
| 22 | Is the any to compare the the entries we have this year with the entries we got last year . |
| 23 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 25 | We have shown him a better way of making the savings he requires next year , and we will be happy to work with him — and with the consumer groups — to find ways of improving the value obtained for the money spent on legal aid in the future . |
| 26 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 27 | Consequently they underinvest in long-term projects which take many years before they yield a positive return . |
| 28 | They are very few compared with the many thousands of monochrome illustrations which appear each year . |
| 29 | It seems to be more difficult for human beings to apprehend the gravity of harms which take several years to manifest themselves . |
| 30 | Wu himself spent 19 years incarcerated ( for expressing ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ opinion ) , beaten , tortured and starved before going to the United States as a visiting professor . |