Example sentences of "year [prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 50 years as a vets ' surgery The Grange has had to tend to many waif birds and animals brought for treatment . |
| 2 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 3 | The TVEI programme required clear management at the point of input , at the end of each of the years of a scheme 's work ( particularly at the cross-over from the main secondary school stage to the college phase ) and at the stage of evaluation . |
| 4 | Dr John Bowlby was the author of a bestseller , Child Care And The Growth Of Love ( 1953 ) , which popularized the theory of Maternal Deprivation , the gist of which was — and is — that the first five years of a child 's life are crucial . |
| 5 | The influential work of John Bowlby has led many people to believe that any kind of mother-child separation during the first few years of a child 's life should be avoided . |
| 6 | The only big businesses to receive a boost were oil companies : they will be allowed to write off the total cost of shutting down offshore oil fields against any corporation tax incurred during the last three years of a field 's working life . |
| 7 | I think their is a problem with the first two or three years of a business ' life . |
| 8 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |
| 9 | In a separate study of 17,000 Harvard graduates in 1986 it was determined that moderate exercise could add up to two years to a person 's life . |
| 10 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 11 | But Gabriel had spent a year as a stonemason 's apprentice , clinging to the rafters and cornices of holy buildings , finishing off or preparing the stone . |
| 12 | First you clap your hands I learned this song in my first year as a Butlin 's redcoat and slightly changed the words . |
| 13 | Norman , who left school at fourteen , did around a year as a plumber 's mate before running away from home and working on a Norwegian ship bound for Persia . |
| 14 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 15 | There is , however , no automatic right of entry to the Diploma and application for admission is normally made during the final year of a student 's degree course . |
| 16 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 17 | It will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 18 | It had promised him 1000 florins a year in a year 's time . |
| 19 | thought that the work areas were s to , supposed to limit them because when you do the one next year in a year 's time then you bring on board two more topics |