Example sentences of "for almost [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 2 | Do you realise I have n't walked on grass for almost a year ? |
| 3 | Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year . |
| 4 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 5 | D'Annuzio led a group of men to occupy Fiume for the Italians , lording over the city for almost a year before being ousted by the wartime Allies . |
| 6 | FOR ALMOST a year , the world-famous Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto had a murderer loose in its cardiac wards . |
| 7 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 8 | It 's been ‘ 88 for almost a year . |
| 9 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 10 | After mulling over the idea for almost a year , Mr Chambers made the decision to leave Greenfield Human Resources — the agency he joined as a trainee in 1956 and left as a director — and set up on his own . |
| 11 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 12 | Unfortunately at this point Martin Fleischmann entered hospital for a serious operation which interrupted the project for almost a year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 15 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 16 | But he never forgot that for almost a year he sank like a stone and would have disappeared without trace but for outside intervention . |
| 17 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 18 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 19 | The Gowrie faction guarded James for almost a year , issuing decrees in his name while claiming that he was their willing guest . |
| 20 | Changes were on the way ; but not because the British government or the Governor initiated them , Dorman-Smith and Knight had managed to stone-wall for almost a year ; largely because Bogyoke was occupied in building up his power base . |
| 21 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 22 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 23 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |
| 24 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 25 | Citing Paul Wilkinson , professor of international relations at St Andrew 's University and head of the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism , as a leading proponent of this view , she reported that he had known about the timer match for almost a year . |
| 26 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that the increase in unemployment last month was the lowest for almost a year , that it was the third successive fall in the rate of increase and that it shows that the rate of increase in unemployment in Britain is now coming down fast . |
| 27 | It is good news that the increase in unemployment in this country last month was the lowest for almost a year . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Britain 's trade gap almost doubled last month with the worst figures for almost a year . |
| 30 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |