Example sentences of "[prep] a year ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | American officials say that , after a year 's careful thought , the new democracies of Eastern Europe have come to the conclusion that NATO is a splendid thing : a watchdog against any future Soviet attempt to re-establish hegemony over Eastern and Central Europe ( see page 47 ) . |
2 | After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him . |
3 | For 1992 they re-employ the services of Australian Mark Waugh , who returns after a year 's sabbatical during which the county was well served by Salim Malik . |
4 | After a year 's training the village nurses were placed in local dispensaries and went to look after mothers in childbirth in their own homes . |
5 | Joining Surrey and Essex in Group 1 next year will be Lancashire , back after a year 's absence , and Norfolk . |
6 | The newer system is cheaper to make , safer , and the tubes are still effective after a year 's continual use . |
7 | So after a year 's preliminary investigation they moved the charter and their centre of government to Boston ( Massachusetts , though named after the East Anglian port ) in 1630 and made it clear that they intended to cut off all official connection with the English government . |
8 | He has recently returned to Europe after a year 's exile teaching in New Hampshire , and is currently living in Italy . |
9 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
10 | I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week . |
11 | After a year 's study with the Revd C. Hodgson at Brathay Vicarage , Ambleside , he entered Trinity College , Cambridge in 1845 , where he began a lifelong friendship with Henry Bradshaw and Dr Fenton Hort [ qq.v. ] , and came under the influence of the writings of F. D. Maurice [ q.v . ] . |
12 | Retiring in 1959 after a year 's extension , Macpherson continued to be active in public life , as chairman of Cable and Wireless Ltd. ( 1962–7 ) , deputy and then chairman of the Basildon Development Corporation ( 1960–7 ) , vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth and the Royal African Societies , and , from 1962 , vice-chairman of the advisory committee on distinction awards for consultants . |
13 | Swallow comes to Shetland after a year 's short-term assignment at Wytch Farm where he provided the engineering input into the onshore field 's scheduled maintenance shutdown in April . |
14 | After a year 's break , Crawford was back at the BBC , making a final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and a play that would show his more serious side to a large audience in the way that only television could do . |
15 | After a year 's planning and several weeks preparation , this year 's Chelsea Flower Show finally opened to the public today . |
16 | Also returning is centre Andy Hewitt who returns after a year 's charity work in London while Neil McCluskey , brother of Graeme , joins the students after a one-year stint in the States . |
17 | He further denied claims by former colleagues that he threatened senior staff after leaving the company in 1991 after a year 's employment as manager of its Magherafelt office . |
18 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
19 | John Brushwood from Hook End , has been hand-picked from this month 's lucky dip , as the winner of a year 's supply of Scuba World . |
20 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
21 | After a two-year common course students elect and are selected for either a three-year honours degree in Consumer Studies or a four-year sandwich degree in Consumer Studies which , as well as leading to the award of an honours degree , includes a Diploma in Industrial Studies ( DIS ) awarded for the successful completion of a year 's industrial placement . |
22 | The course currently occupies one unit ( one-eighth of a year 's work ) in the final year , and is optional for most students . |
23 | TNC was given an astonishingly brief period of consultation while teachers were on their summer holidays in 1987 ; ISS was the subject of a year 's consultation in 1984–85 — perhaps too long . |
24 | David , 21 , of Hemingstone near Ipswich won the Kidsons Impey Award of a year 's free accountancy and tax advice at the Suffolk Livewire Awards . |
25 | The second cycle would consist of a year 's professional studies followed by a year as a ‘ licensed ’ teacher ( replacing the existing probationary year ) , after which students would be awarded a BA ( Ed ) . |
26 | The closing date for entries is 14 January 1993 , after which a draw will be held and the first three correct entries to be drawn will receive the prize of a year 's free Friends membership plus the book of your choice . |
27 | The course consists of a year 's advanced study in one of the following honours schools : Animal Nutrition , Biochemistry , Neuroscience , Pathological Sciences , Preclinical Sciences . |
28 | For the organisers , it was the fruition of a year 's planning . |
29 | Grant having been offered specifically towards a year 's programme within the plan for development , clearly it is necessary that a reasonably full report should be provided to explain progress , or the lack of it , and to illustrate particular successes or problems . |
30 | The passage cost £6 , or something like a year 's wages and for repayment the indenture might run from four to seven years — though they would , of course , have to be fed and clothed in that period . |