Example sentences of "[adv] a year in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 2 | now what gave the reason for that so we can all follow it quite clearly see if I 've got this right , was the reason for the updating of the service charges once a year in the brochure , the fact that if you did n't update the brochure might mislead a prospective purchaser ? |
| 3 | But we certainly did some good work in the education because I think that we erm we used to , you know , of course we 'd , we 'd got used to use our auxiliaries naturally and erm we used to have a big conc a big er concert once a year in the town hall and er we would involve all the auxiliaries you know erm and of course we used to always erm fell a bit flat , the International Day which is July , the first Ju Saturday in July is International Day , Co-operative International , and we have always , the Guilds have worked very closely with the International Day . |
| 4 | To ‘ off-comed 'uns ’ it is not even a large village , with only 2,080 inhabitants , but to the native it is a town because it has held a market charter since 1223 and although no market has been held for many years , the charter was read once a year in the market place until 1939 . |
| 5 | So , after two years of design and development and nearly a year in the building , what happens now ? |
| 6 | ‘ I think after you 've worked about a year in the job you find that you start off by seeing pollutions . |
| 7 | AFTER barely a year in the job , Peter Ueberroth — famous for giving Los Angeles a profitable Olympic Games in 1984 — has resigned from the Rebuild Los Angeles ( RLA ) commission . |
| 8 | SWITZERLAND 's Pirmin Zurbriggen yesterday won his first race in over a year in the World Cup Alpine super-giant slalom down Sestriere 's fast and slippery Kandahar course , while the overall champion , Marc Girardelli , crashed and was taken to hospital . |