Example sentences of "of [noun sg] a year [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 2 | Targeted revenues could top four billion pounds a year and provide a war chest for good causes such as sport and arts , the treasury 's cut will be twelve percent of proceeds , leaving a honey pot of six hundred million pounds of turnover a year for the operator . |
| 3 | It reportedly plans to extract 9 million tonnes of ore a year by the end of 1993 , in order to secure a contract from the European steel industry . |
| 4 | Not only would winning the order mean around some £60 million worth of work a year for the next decade for Ferranti , but it would give a successful bidder or partner for Ferranti access to crucial next-generation radar technology . |
| 5 | Not only would winning the order mean around some £60 million worth of work a year for the next decade for Ferranti , but it would give a successful bidder or partner for Ferranti access to crucial next-generation radar technology . |
| 6 | Greenpeace dispatches 33 million items of post a year in the US — to push the message that junk mail harms the environment |
| 7 | Des Greene of Minchem , one of two firms that export toxic wastes for treatment , estimates that he sends , at most , 2000 tonnes of waste a year to the UK . |
| 8 | The brewery employed 65 coopers , used 130 horses to move the beer out to publicans , and consumed 500,000 barrels of water a year from its own artesian wells . |
| 9 | Britain dumps more than seven million tonnes of sewage a year in the North Sea ; 125 out of 338 bathing beaches failed to meet EC standards chiefly because of sewage pollution . |
| 10 | There are , on average , between sixty and eighty days of frost a year throughout the region . |
| 11 | So on current plans the reprocessing plants will separate an average of 21 tonnes of plutonium a year over the next 20 years . |
| 12 | In May 1984 the British government granted a licence and planning permission for the extraction of up to one and half million tonnes of lignite a year to Northern Strip Mining , part of the British Burnett and Hallamshire group . |
| 13 | On the supply side of the energy picture , the rise of UK oil production — from 14 million tonnes in 1975 to 114.9 million in 1983 with the UK moving from importing well over 100 million tonnes of oil a year to being an exporter of approaching 50 million tonnes a year — dwarfs all else . |
| 14 | A report on China 's economy by the World Bank ( May 1983 ) suggested that 4% to 6% annual GDP growth could leave China needing to import up to 32 million tonnes of oil a year by 1990 . |
| 15 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 16 | A wagonway was constructed to carry coal from local pits to the wooden staithes — the wharves where ships lined up for loading — and brick houses were built for miners and dockers in the town that was exporting four million tons of coal a year by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Leicestershire County Council is due to give the go-ahead to mine 1.5 million tonnes of coal a year from the north-east Leicestershire coal field on 14 April . |
| 18 | Since monographs can go out of print a year after publication , and since the heaviest use of monographs is normally in the year and a half following publication , librarians obviously can not rely upon reviews as a selection tool . |
| 19 | On its completion in 1994 , the plant will supply 16,500 tonnes — 8m gallons — of ice-cream a year to the seven Baskin-Robbins stores already trading in Moscow , St Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod . |