Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , has announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 2 | Start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , last week announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 3 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 4 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 5 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 6 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 7 | Britain 's trade gap almost doubled last month with the worst figures for almost a year . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter continued preaching in these churches for about a year until 1662 , when he was forbidden by law from any further public ministry . |
| 9 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 10 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 11 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 12 | DEACON Blue will begin their first tour for over a year at the newly revamped Ingliston auditorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
| 13 | ‘ Lower interest rates have contributed to a pick-up in the growth of narrow money , while retail sales have been on a steady upward trend for almost a year . |
| 14 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 15 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 16 | Yet so many people seem to have a mental block on this point , rushing for those little bottles when common sense should tell them that they can not possibly have some dreadful plague as they have n't introduced any new fish for over a year ! |
| 17 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 18 | An underground nuclear test , the first by the Soviet Union for almost a year , was carried out on Oct. 24 on Novaya Zemlya island inside the Arctic Circle . |
| 19 | Then Brian Mooney , playing his first senior game for nearly a year , was dispossessed on the edge of the penalty area and Minto gleefully scored the winner . |