Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , 100% supervision , even of early solo flying , is impractical for 365 days in the year as there are bound to be moments when the instructor 's attention is diverted . |
| 2 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 3 | Have you noticed the particular pattern , for example , for different months of the year ? |
| 4 | The Borrowdale mines in the lane District , discovered in 1564 , yielded such fine graphite that it was jealously guarded , extractions only being sold for six weeks of the year . |
| 5 | The season lasted for six months of the year and entailed about 14 hours per week . |
| 6 | Much of the country was covered by snow for six months of the year . |
| 7 | Chezery and Brenod were high in the mountains , at 5,000 and 4,000 feet respectively , and had to contend like Norway with snow cover for six months of the year . |
| 8 | He was reluctant to take the post for two reasons : he felt that the salary was not high enough , and he did not like the idea of being confined to one place even for six months of the year . |
| 9 | Thus it is explained why the sun reigns supreme for six months of the year , followed by deadly winter until such time as the god of Spring blinds him again . |
| 10 | It sounds a trivial thing — this common pasture right for six months of the year — but it had the most devastating effect on town development , in the Midlands above all . |
| 11 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 12 | flooded for six months of the year was n't it ? |
| 13 | For six months of the year it was under water ! |
| 14 | That explains why for six months in a year we watch cricket and for the next six talk about it . |
| 15 | She is milked for 10 months of the year and pregnant for nine months . |
| 16 | Metering has been on trial in England and Wales for the past two years , to assess whether it is a serious option as a basis for domestic charges from the year 2000 — when the present charging system based on the rateable value of your house is due to be scrapped . |
| 17 | On average a school pupil enrols for 2.2 modules in a year compared to 5.6 modules for an FE student . |
| 18 | Why not introduce retainers of say , £8,000 for three months of the year , asks Farr-Jones . |
| 19 | He grew up rich in beauty ; I grew up under a miserly , penny-pinching sky , in the niggardly light of England where , for three months of the year , it gets dark soon after lunch and for three more it does n't bother getting light at all . |
| 20 | The secretary of state for foreign affairs still retained , as did his fellow secretaries for war , the navy and the maison du roi , ultimate responsibility for the administration of a group of French provinces ; and each of the four still acted as general secretary to the king , in the drawing up and despatching of official documents of all kinds , for three months in the year . |
| 21 | He recognised his ex-pupil 's handwriting on a letter and thereby identified the highwayman — even though Turpin had only been his pupil for three quarters of a year . |
| 22 | shall we just look at er item four on one , five , three , because this is er sent out on the seventeenth of June eighty five , right , see that at page one , five , two , and it says at four the service charge , the estimated service charge for these flats for the year ending thirty one August eighty five is and then the flats are set out there , three hundred and eighty two , five , seven , five and seven , six , four , that 's all in respect of because we know this was an flat , we can see that from page one , five , two , but when , whether or not the brochure is updated when that letter goes out to their solicitors , have you seen other similar letters of this sort going out ? |
| 23 | The decentralized Evans model underestimates the amount of material which lies unused in departments for long periods of the year and which might be of value to another discipline , or to a pupil in the enquiry mode ; it certainly contains no element which would stress interdisciplinary thinking , inter.departmental cooperation or the sharing of acquisitions and experience . |
| 24 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 25 | Costs increased for all clients in the year following their referral to the psychogeriatric service but they increased more steeply in the action than control samples . |
| 26 | The pilot scheme proved to be a great success and has now been developed into a continuing professional development programme for all pupils in the year 1992/93. is now wholly involved in coordinating this scheme for the Bar . |
| 27 | Of the half million tests carried out for regulatory purposes in the year up to June 30 , 1989 , we are pleased to report that 998 out of 1,000 met the strict specifications of the European Community Directive . |
| 28 | Bicheiros might be wanted criminals for 362 days of the year , only to turn monarchs during the pre-Lenten pageant , samba-dancing arm in arm with governors , mayors and other overworld glitterati . |
| 29 | Parsnips , leeks , broccoli and Brussels sprouts are all slow growers , and may be in the ground for ten months to a year . |
| 30 | For ten months of the year we hear nothing of him , then he releases some nauseating , sentimental ditty aimed at grabbing the Christmas Number One spot . |