Example sentences of "[verb] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim was nominated for the competition by Mrs Eunice Graham , who has won a year 's supply of free milk . |
| 2 | Those great figures of the Enlightenment , William Robertson and David Hume , both argued for Mary 's guilt of adultery ( with Bothwell ) and murder ( of Darnley ) , on the grounds that the Casket Letters were genuine , in their histories of Scotland and England respectively which they published in 1759 ; and they in turn were attacked a year later by William Tytler , in his Historical and Critical Enquiry into the evidence against Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 3 | She might as well buy a year 's supply . |
| 4 | That is precisely what the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East described a year ago . |
| 5 | Yet each woman could , theoretically , have given birth to as many as 15 children spaced two years apart or 30 spaced a year apart . |
| 6 | ONE year on , captain Baard Bogen and his crew from the Norwegian airline Braathens celebrate a year of flying into Newcastle with a cake baked specially for the occasion . |
| 7 | Since then there 's been such winners as ‘ B-A-B-Y ’ ( Carla Thomas , 1966 and Rachel Sweet , 1978 ) , ‘ Baby , Baby ’ ( Eighth Wonder , 1988 ) and ‘ Baby ’ ( Halo James , 1990 ) , the Mechanical Copyright people announcing a year ago that their database , at that point , contained 81 songs called ‘ Baby , Baby ’ , 22 titled ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ and even one called ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ! |
| 8 | The second one the second man says I want a year 's , I want ten years ' supply of whisky , right , so they sling it in there . |
| 9 | The latter view might have been applauded a year previously : after Tiananmen , it sounded merely cynical . |
| 10 | In its latest quarterly review , the Bank said the economy was still bumping along the bottom — just as it reported a year ago . |
| 11 | The improvement in trading which I reported a year ago rapidly evaporated as recession regained its grip in the United Kingdom and gained momentum in the important Continental Europe and Japanese markets which themselves account for about one half of the sales of our United Kingdom businesses . |
| 12 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 13 | The 1859 committee was dissolved a year later , but only because the government had decided to treat the press with greater subtlety . |
| 14 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 15 | It is a universal characteristic of higher animals that they senesce ; that is , the likelihood of their dying in a given time interval , say a year , increases as they grow older , and often fecundity declines . |
| 16 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 17 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 18 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 19 | His father became mentally ill in 1779 , dying a year later . |
| 20 | An effort by $500m-a-year semiconductor maker Micron Technology Inc to develop its own 64-bit superscalar single-chip RISC processor has floundered , taking with it the subsidiary built a year ago to house it . |
| 21 | The 1.6 billion cu.m of water discharged a year after switch on will be allowed to raise the Dead Sea for 20 years . |
| 22 | But the plan envisages the creation of 5,000 parking places a year and any new apartment block will have to provide more parking spaces than flats . |
| 23 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 24 | As I mentioned a year ago , however , the then current sales of advertising space and forward orders for 1992 were seriously down , a position which persisted throughout the year . |
| 25 | enjoyed a year of exceptional growth — with an increase in European sales of more than 50 per cent . |
| 26 | The sadness and this is this subject was forecast a year and a half ago er that we are phasing in i in large management and land and it was raised , we had that seminar but before that there were also erm worries expressed before this predicament . |
| 27 | The government has forecast a year in deficit of £17.5bn after the £12bn shortfall in 1992 . |
| 28 | The Government has forecast a year in deficit of £17.5bn , after the £12bn shortfall in 1992 . |
| 29 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 30 | The council says that people who reject accomodation must wait a year for another offer . |