Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 2 | Gryschenko , from Kiev , married and with a child less than a year old , joined with all the team working long into the night at Hamble to prepare Fazisi 's bare hull for the race . |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock also sprang a surprise by restoring Ms Clare Short to the front bench less than a year after she resigned as spokeswoman on Employment in an acrimonious row with Mr Kinnock over the party 's stance on the Prevention of Terrorism Act . |
| 4 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 5 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 6 | By dumping the new arrivals less than a year later , BZW , chaired now as then by Sir Martin Jacomb , has shown up its American adventure for the opportunistic grab it was . |
| 7 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 8 | Some of the greens , sown only in the autumn that year , were described as near perfection less than a year later , although on balance it was accepted the course had to mature , the turf being described as a little scarce in places . |
| 9 | They elected Leeds United , formed shortly after the demise of City , to the Second Division in 1920 , less than a year later , a move popularly interpreted among supporters as gratitude . |
| 10 | The gregarious owls were juveniles less than a year old just coming into breeding condition , but unable to find a place to nest in the plantation . |
| 11 | Airships are making a commercial comeback less than a year after Australian businessman Alan Bond 's Airship Industries crashed to earth with debts of £50 million . |
| 12 | It seemed amazing that it was less than a year since that had been said . |
| 13 | It took the company less than a year to roll out their prototype DHC–2 — and it was a runaway success right from the start . |
| 14 | From a committed team of nine couples , less than a year later they have the encouragement of now seeing a hundred regularly worshipping together each week . |
| 15 | On July 14 , less than a year since his accident , he played in a one-day pro-am and won with a 68 . |
| 16 | But Marty had to learn his trade fast , since he began teaching guitar less than a year after starting to play himself ! |
| 17 | McCartney was less than a year older and even Ringo , the ‘ old man ’ of '60s pop was just 23 . |
| 18 | It was , after all , less than a year ago that he sold a substantial quantity of Amstrad shares . |
| 19 | Anyway , there was promotion in it : when we next come across him , less than a year later , he has risen to the giddy heights of master , taking over from William Cox . |
| 20 | The 20-year-old , a reserve team striker less than a year ago , is now a key man in Kevin Keegan 's all-conquering outfit . |
| 21 | All of this , it can surely be argued , flowed seamlessly from that fateful meeting between two black American sailors and a princely envoy from the Kyoto court in the harbour at Uraga , and by the handover of a letter written by a president who , less than a year later , would be languishing in Bukalo in the beginnings of what should be — by this reckoning alone — quite undeserved historical obscurity . |
| 22 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 23 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 24 | The other older one had been in Chicago , moved to Washington less than a year back , and Erlich knew his name because he 'd the distinction of having run the sting in the Board of Trade 's soybean futures pit . |
| 25 | American Airlines , which began the daily flights to Chicago less than a year ago , and an airport spokesman accused the Government of being partly to blame for the decision . |
| 26 | Here , less than a year after the ending of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the north-east , was a proper casus belli which was important to each side in the wider conflict . |
| 27 | Under the title Crime Knows No Boundaries the report was published on 19 January 1966 , less than a year after the inception of the policy group . |
| 28 | The Charity Commission has launched a second formal investigation into Richmond Fellowship Charitable Foundation , less than a year since its last report into the mental health charity . |
| 29 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 30 | However , Peyton died in London less than a year later , 3 May 1689 . |