Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [subord] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewan is the 2,000th disabled person to find a job in the area of Glasgow , Renfrew and Dumbarton since the Employment Service set up a committee to spearhead initiatives in this field more than a year ago . |
| 2 | Airships are making a commercial comeback less than a year after Australian businessman Alan Bond 's Airship Industries crashed to earth with debts of £50 million . |
| 3 | The council faces a £4.5m. bill for repairs to the centre after defective mortar was found in the outer walls more than a year ago . |
| 4 | Stylish midfielder Davis , 31 , was fined and dumped from Graham 's first-team plans more than a year ago when he wrote an article in a national newspaper criticising the manager 's tactics after Arsenal 's exit from the European Cup by Benfica . |
| 5 | When we published the original White Paper more than a year ago , the overall reaction was , ’ Good ideas , let's wait to see how they are delivered . ’ |
| 6 | A complaint from London Electricity following the loss of the London Underground supply contract to National Power more than a year ago triggered the issue . |
| 7 | Mr Kinnock also sprang a surprise by restoring Ms Clare Short to the front bench less than a year after she resigned as spokeswoman on Employment in an acrimonious row with Mr Kinnock over the party 's stance on the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 8 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 9 | Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter . |
| 10 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |