Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [det] [subord] a year " in BNC.

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1 To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only .
2 ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’
3 The best ( rated 5 ) will pay for itself in less than a year , while the least cost-effective ( rate 0 ) is worth doing only if you are planning to carry out other major renovation work at the same time .
4 Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year .
5 The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 .
6 We have been planning it for more than a year .
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