Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a year " in BNC.
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1 | The government has forecast a year in deficit of £17.5bn after the £12bn shortfall in 1992 . |
2 | The Government has forecast a year in deficit of £17.5bn , after the £12bn shortfall in 1992 . |
3 | Jim was nominated for the competition by Mrs Eunice Graham , who has won a year 's supply of free milk . |
4 | He added , however , that a handful of men did commence training a year ago for the new station and have moved home . |
5 | Waste Minimization and Containment Services Inc ( WMC ) of Cleveland , Ohio , has spent a year and a half and $750,000 harnessing the intriguing physics of CO2 . |
6 | Often , a graduate has to complete a year at college or at law school after taking a degree . |
7 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
8 | Another journal has taken a year to respond on more than one occasion . |
9 | The youth has taken a year off from his studies at Edinburgh University to fight his trial . |
10 | That will earn him his RIBA Part I. But then , he has to get a year 's relevant experience in practice before coming back for the final year of his course . |
11 | FRANCIS AMPOFO , who has waited a year to reclaim the British flyweight title , tonight challenges Scotland 's James Drummond in London . |
12 | I prayed as I 'd done a year before when Abed had attacked Bri . |
13 | Explaining why he now supports the Grand Slam Cup , after refusing to compete a year ago , he said ‘ I have my word to the ATP that I would do everything I signed to do in my contract with them . |
14 | He 'd served a year of an indefinite sentence after being found guilty of indecently assaulting a three year old girl in the city . |
15 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
16 | THE hellraising son of actor Ryan O'Neal was yesterday sentenced to spend a year in a tough drug and alcohol clinic . |
17 | ‘ We are going to see a year of unparalleled crisis in the 12 months ahead . |
18 | So the focus returned to Sir Roger , and he has agreed to serve a year . |
19 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
20 | Yes , yes , well I am too , and that we shall pay the penalty later on if we do n't get with us and I feel that erm , as difficult as the budget is , as tight as it is with reduction etcetera , I feel that we should make a positive funding for prevention or something , or er , because I think unless we do start somewhere , and quickly , we are going to pay the penalty at the end of the and so we 've got to make a date , you 've got to make a year , and if you wait and say and well we have n't got it now , well next year we shall say we have n't got it now , and the next year we 'll say we have n't got it now . |
21 | And actually that 's quite a good budget to do sort of er four or five weeks er you know caravanning a year . |
22 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
23 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
24 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
25 | He would gladly have given a year 's salary just to know what exactly was the relationship between these two . |
26 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
27 | Usually in the Labour party any other organization you 're gon na have to wait a year but the women did n't . |
28 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
29 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
30 | ‘ By the time this is over , Tom will have missed a year of school , and I would n't like that to happen again , so this will probably be the last lengthy expedition we go on . |