Example sentences of "within a year " in BNC.

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1 Within a year , he was cooking for the Royal Box and state galas .
2 They had married within a year .
3 Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher .
4 MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Thousands of Soviet television viewers yesterday heard Boris Yeltsin , the Communist Party rebel , warn of a ‘ revolution from below ’ if radical economic changes did not happen within a year .
5 The stock market 's Hang Seng Index doubled within a year of the agreement ; over the next two years , it doubled again .
6 Quite likely , within a year or two , it will be told to increase its share .
7 Daresbury 's work for industry , which amounts to only 5 per cent of its activities , could double within a year , Professor Leadbetter said .
8 The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year .
9 Mr Collor promised to reduce inflation to just 3 per cent a month within a year by using shock tactics similar to those of President Menem of Argentina .
10 He estimates the chassis could go into production within a year .
11 But women having sex once a day with an HIV-infected man would on average become infected within a year , the study found .
12 The results also show that for couples with one infected partner and having sex three times daily , the woman is on average likely to become infected within four months , and the man within a year .
13 Three out of five key appointments failed to work — two-thirds of them within a year .
14 It is possible that an enabling bill will be brought before Parliament next year , and the first trial could be within a year .
15 Many people find themselves homeless within a year of leaving care .
16 Once GM 's union agreed to the plan , a bandwagon rolled : within a year 8,000 new plans had been written , all along the same lines .
17 It prevents repeat bids within a year and bans bidders from acting in undisclosed concert with other people .
18 The prime minister 's economic programme includes deregulating the foreign capital market , privatising 115 state-owned businesses — including the banks — within a year , and encouraging private investment in transport , communications and energy .
19 In one-day matches England were now just about at rock bottom ; within a year they were very much on top .
20 He turned out to be a friend of the musicians and , within a year , she was launched on her disastrous marriage .
21 I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year .
22 Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 .
23 Within a year its individual membership had risen by about 100,000 .
24 It must be proved that the defendant 's act or omission caused the death of the victim within a year and a day .
25 Despite an enthusiastic public , their shop closed within a year .
26 THE RESULTS of Labour 's inquiry into electoral reform for the House of Commons will be complete within a year of taking office , Mr Kinnock promised yesterday .
27 ‘ I do not think that will necessarily prolong the deliberations and the results will be available — the further recommendations and the analysis — within a year , though I would not nominate a month , ’ he said on BBC Radio 's World At One .
28 Douglas Hurd , Foreign Secretary , said yesterday that an indecisive result would delay recovery , lead to uncertainty and result in a second election within a year .
29 Creditors due to be paid within a year were up from £261m to £337m , while the gross interest payable was £158m against £130m — and that after capitalising £39.6m of interest .
30 The Foreign Secretary also predicted that a hung parliament would lead to another election within a year .
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