Example sentences of "[pron] for a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 2 | That he 's owed me for a year ! |
| 3 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 4 | Or , it would build 21 district hospitals and run them for a year . |
| 5 | Hamish Kidd — previously with Heidrick and Struggles — was introduced to them in 1978 , and it was agreed that he would work with them for a year with the aim of establishing that a sale could be arranged . |
| 6 | He went without a sight of any of them for a year . |
| 7 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |
| 8 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 9 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 10 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 11 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 12 | People have been counted as spending all of the last year of their lives in residential homes if they had lived in one for a year or more . |
| 13 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 14 | Serena Gordon , preparing herself for a year in London — ‘ I 'll take my passport and go to Ongar ’ |
| 15 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 16 | ‘ I went out with him for a year and a half , ’ she replies . |
| 17 | Banning him for a year , Judge Lyons said : ‘ I find it hard to imagine a more serious case . ’ |
| 18 | They missed out on Shearer , who joined Kenny Dalglish at Ewood Park after Ferguson had tracked him for a year . |
| 19 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 20 | Having met Hermione Farthingale , David lived with her for a year . |
| 21 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 22 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 23 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 24 | She stood it for a year . |
| 25 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 26 | Leave it for a year , and you 'll have established a pattern which will be hard to break . |
| 27 | A silver cup , purchased by subscription the following year , was to be competed for annually , the winning captain to hold it for a year . |
| 28 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 29 | What I think the danger is there , from a Conservative political perspective , is that having , having , Liberals having with us if you like , got the principle through , Liberals may then go with the Labour party and say right we 've got the principle through , we 've identified four homes , let's have a refurbishment programme , a bit of airport money here , a bit of slippage there and we 'll get this through and then we 'll tackle the problem of closures and if closures is proving difficult let's ignore it for a year , let's do these four and let's go on . |
| 30 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |