Example sentences of "make [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It worries that the Philippines could quickly forfeit the gains made during two years of austerity . |
| 2 | Loans are made for one year at a time and a student may apply only once in any year . |
| 3 | Little progress was made for thirty years . |
| 4 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 5 | A lease can be made for five years subject to the tenant 's right to determine if the war ends before the expiry of five years . |
| 6 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 7 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 8 | According to David Hume , the subject of the next chapter , Berkeley 's account of abstract ideas was ‘ one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters ’ . |
| 9 | Much of this material may have been copied from older sets of annals , and some conceivably derived from the brief comments sometimes made against individual years in the Tables which told churchmen the date of Easter . |
| 10 | Exam results are looked at closely , subject by subject , and comparisons are made with previous years and with neighbouring schools . |
| 11 | No direct comparison can be made with last year 's figures , as chairman Hugo Biermann reversed his company into a quoted shell company called Pathfinder Plc , and then changed its name to Maddox — because it was based in Maddox Street in London . |
| 12 | A claim to surrender ACT may be made within six years of the end of the accounting period to which it relates , and requires the consent of the subsidiaries concerned . |
| 13 | Voluntary settlements ( in particular family settlements made after marriage ) are set aside by a bankruptcy if made within two years before ; and even if made within ten years before , unless it is shown that at the time the bankrupt was able to meet his liabilities without the settled property . |
| 14 | Claims must be made within two years of the child 's birth , or four in the case of muscular dystrophy . |
| 15 | A claim to carry back ACT must be made within two years after the end of the accounting period in which the surplus arose . |
| 16 | Gifts made within three years of death do not qualify for any relief and the tax will have to be paid in full . |
| 17 | Voluntary settlements ( in particular family settlements made after marriage ) are set aside by a bankruptcy if made within two years before ; and even if made within ten years before , unless it is shown that at the time the bankrupt was able to meet his liabilities without the settled property . |
| 18 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 19 | Originally it covered all gifts , but since 1986 it is restricted to gifts on death or those made within seven years of death . |
| 20 | PRINTS made from 100 year old negatives had the members at Friday 's meeting of Alton Camera Club envious of the quality . |
| 21 | Yet yesterday 's appointment of Howard Kendall as manager seems , on the face of it , one of the most rational and sensible moves the Blues have made in recent years . |
| 22 | Yet yesterday 's appointment of Howard Kendall as manager seems , on the face of it , one of the most rational and sensible moves the Blues have made in recent years . |
| 23 | If investments have already been made in recent years , the average investor will not bother to make further improvements until energy prices begin to hurt . |
| 24 | We then examine the approaches firms have made in recent years , such as ‘ environmental scanning ’ , to formalise their acquisition of external information . |
| 25 | What changes has the farmer made in recent years to the seven year plan for the use of one field and the application of fertiliser to it ? |
| 26 | Great strides have been made in recent years to offer greater choice and to personalise private rooms , but resources are never enough to provide the optimum living conditions for a comfortable and happy old age . |
| 27 | Large investments in this area also have been made in recent years , as indicated in Table 11.14 . |
| 28 | These substantial resources will enable the executive to continue the progress that it has made in recent years in improving housing conditions in Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | Considerable advances have been made in recent years in using computer models to understand the intellectual aspects of the human mind . |
| 30 | Lightbody 's omission must go down as one of the biggest boobs the NIBA have made in recent years . |