Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 2 | ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; … |
| 3 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 4 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 5 | While you are pregnant , and for a year after your baby is born , you can get free prescriptions for your medicines . |
| 6 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 7 | For the sake of prudence in an age afflicted by mass unemployment , his parents urged him to study practically , and for a year in Vienna Karajan studied engineering , before decamping to his real vocation , music . |
| 8 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 9 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 10 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 11 | These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 . |
| 12 | ‘ Dilly ’ , as he was called , went to Summer Fields , Oxford , at the age of eleven and after a year was first in his election to Eton . |
| 13 | He had a fishing boat of his own and after a year or so on the island had adapted to the life as a native . |
| 14 | He decided to take a salaried job in a posh West End gallery and within a year had landed the directorship of the Marlborough Gallery 's contemporary art venture , the New London Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 15 | Bell began to experiment , and within a year , on 10 March 1876 , Watson heard the first words ever spoken on the newly invented telephone , ‘ Come here Watson , I want you . |
| 16 | Clutterbuck Deane died in 1701 and within a year Mary had sold the mill to Thomas Shurmur , in whose family it was to remain for a century . |
| 17 | At twenty she had become engaged , married on her twenty-first birthday , and within a year had a beautiful baby daughter to dandle on her knee … |
| 18 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 19 | The USA exploded its first thermonuclear device in 1952 , and within a year the USSR had done likewise . |
| 20 | That peace was short-lived however , and within a year , England was once more at war with France . |
| 21 | He chuckles and says , ‘ a few years ago , I had an interview — it was with GRAMOPHONE , actually — in which I confidently predicted that surely people will stop releasing the Mendelssohn-Bruch coupling , and within a year there were two or three more . |
| 22 | Churchill investigated German local labour exchanges and within a year proposed to the Cabinet their introduction and that of unemployment insurance and the development of employment opportunities in the countryside . |
| 23 | May 's report , published in 1979 , failed to satisfy the POA , and within a year prison officers were refusing to admit new prisoners . |
| 24 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
| 25 | Isabella entered almost immediately into her husband 's publishing business , and within a year was writing on domestic matters for the EDM and had begun the ‘ four years ’ incessant labour' which she claimed Beeton 's Book of Household Management cost her . |
| 26 | And in a year 's time I hope you will know all the multiplication tables up to twelve . |
| 27 | And in a year or two perhaps I might be in a position to take you up on it . " |
| 28 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , other strategies will roll out in two to three months Pyramid says , and in a years or so 's time it claims it 'll have servers capable of competing with IBM mainframe class systems . |
| 30 | I watched day and night , but for a year and a half there were no boats . |