Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 2 | They fled the civil war there a year ago . |
| 3 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 4 | With its younger sibling , the Edinburgh International Television Festival , the EIFF supplies a focus for the world of the moving image once a year . |
| 5 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 6 | So Barnes , a 25-year-old who was in park football two years ago , could be pitched into the big time barely a year after revolutionary surgery in the States saved his career . |
| 7 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |