Example sentences of "[noun prp] for a year " in BNC.
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1 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
2 | He was received with honour by Archbishop Hermann of Cologne and Emperor Henry III , remained in Germany for a year , and was presented , among other gifts , with a psalter and sacramentary sent there by Canute [ q.v . ] . |
3 | I have lived in Germany for a year now , all the time . |
4 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
5 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
6 | Lewis anxiously opened The Times Literary Supplement every Friday for a year , hoping far a good notice for the poem . |
7 | Then his passion for painting diverted him to travels in Mexico for a year . |
8 | Then his passion for painting diverted him to travels in Mexico for a year . |
9 | Geoff Tulloch got hold of the idea that she 'd worked for some corporation in Detroit for a year . |
10 | Keyboard player Mark Taylor played a SY99/TG77 combination which will form the main part of his keyboard rig when the show hits the road at the end of May for a year long world tour . |
11 | In 1901 Belle went to England for a year , taking the children with her . |
12 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
13 | I explained that I was planning , as soon as I left Oxford , to go to Abyssinia for a year , to explore the Danakil country . |
14 | He was rusticated from Cambridge for a year , and never returned . |
15 | Suspended from the Commons for a year following the interception of an incriminating letter , he secured his readmittance , according to the diarist , Sir Simonds D'Ewes [ q.v. ] , |
16 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
17 | Following three years at Stonyhurst , he returned to teach at Manresa for a year , then went to study theology at St Beuno 's College in north Wales in 1874 . |
18 | With troops deployed in Bosnia for a year already , and no one knows for how much longer , the defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind is openly arguing against more cuts unless commitments like this are cut as well . |
19 | ‘ We went to Netherhampton for a year ’ , he wrote : ‘ the experiment lasted for seven and here we are still at Netherhampton after a quarter of a century . ’ |
20 | Her father was a schoolmaster who went to Lyon for a year as part of his training course and came back with Mme Wyatt in tow . |
21 | Exit the Class 45 ‘ Peaks ’ , the last surviving locomotives built at Derby Works — and Flying Scotsman to Australia for a year 's tour . |
22 | Back in Johannesburg after the war , Herbert began to practise law in partnership with one of his elder brothers , James , but later went off to Europe for a year to study law in Vienna . |
23 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
24 | He is returning Down Under with his dad Michael , a Northern Territory education official who has been visiting Britain for a year . |
25 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
26 | Then if you do well , you can study at Queen 's in Charlottetown for a year , and after that you 'll be a teacher ! ’ |
27 | During this period I worked as a computer programmer in Accra for a year . |
28 | While Tenon Intersystems Inc of Santa Barbara , California , has been shipping its MachTen implementation of Carnegie Mellon 's Mach operating system for the Macintosh for a year or so now ( UX No 341 , 393 ) , a separate effort at the University itself is now complete and ready to go . |
29 | Or that Mother had gone to Belgium for a year after she left school to teach English in a convent . |
30 | ‘ But Mr Carson and I are only in New York for a year , ’ Mrs Carson pointed out . |