Example sentences of "[vb past] about a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the elections that followed about a year later in 1979 the Awlad Amira ( who had ousted the Mannaia from office in 1976 ) lost control of thirteen of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 2 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |
| 3 | The whole thing started about a year before , when I was seventeen . |
| 4 | Church council treasurer John King said the parish had been unable to fly its St George cross since the lanyard broke about a year ago . |
| 5 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 6 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 7 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |