Example sentences of "[verb] for a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again . |
| 2 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 3 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 4 | quite keen , well it is n't as if I 'm gon na stay for a year , he 's sort of thinking sort of you know going out there to work and I |
| 5 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 6 | I 'll prepare a ship at Bristol , take you and Hawkins with me , and have that treasure if I have to search for a year ! ’ |
| 7 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 8 | A government resolution which would transform the mutual debts of state enterprises into " transferable long-term bonds " , to circulate for a year until their conversion into shares , was put to the Supreme Soviet on June 26 together with the budget statement . |
| 9 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 10 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 11 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 12 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 13 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 14 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 15 | He won the International Kondrashin Competition four weeks after leaving the Royal Academy of Music , a music degree at Manchester already accomplished , and turned down all offers to conduct for a year . |
| 16 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 17 | The 1993 shipment plan for the R4000 depends on the availability schedule of the multiprocessing version , delayed for a year and now in final testing , Brown said . |
| 18 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 19 | After their pantomime season , Les Jolies Petites toured for a year at various dates all over the country , always getting an excellent reception . |
| 20 | After they went , Trebyan was let for a year or two till Maurice got hisself married to some up-country girl . |
| 21 | Let Liberals and Conservatives take office under him without prejudice to their party allegiance- but let the leaders stand out , keeping their party machinery intact , and promise support say for a year only . |
| 22 | A STEWARTSTOWN housewife who struck an Army officer on the face was conditionally discharged for a year at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday for assault . |
| 23 | Brine , who admitted two charges of being drunk and disorderly and failing to surrender to bail , was conditionally discharged for a year . |
| 24 | Should he wait for a year , by which time the quarrel between Hindus and Muslims over the disputed Ayodhya mosque will have cooled down ? |
| 25 | In 1969 he was fined £25 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and was disqualified for driving for a year for failing to give police a blood or urine sample . |
| 26 | He was well over the limit and was banned from driving for a year . |
| 27 | He was banned from driving for a year . |
| 28 | A WRITTLE Agricultural College technician was banned from driving for a year and fined £270 with £35 costs by Witham magistrates yesterday after pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol . |
| 29 | The public may not be so sympathetic over his recent conviction for drink driving — he was banned from driving for a year last September . |
| 30 | He was fined a total of £300 and disqualified from driving for a year . |