Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] year " in BNC.

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1 It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year .
2 ‘ Things went through smoothly , ’ he says , ‘ But now the terms have changed and payments only continue for a year . ’
3 A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production .
4 A STEWARTSTOWN housewife who struck an Army officer on the face was conditionally discharged for a year at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday for assault .
5 Brine , who admitted two charges of being drunk and disorderly and failing to surrender to bail , was conditionally discharged for a year .
6 Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year
7 If you do not weigh for a year and you eat just an extra 500 calories each day during that time , you will have put on a full 45 lb ( 21.8 kg ) ; rather a nasty shock !
8 ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year .
9 Targets already announced for the year are 4705m capex , and savings of $150m , which will include job cuts and savings across the board .
10 It was not paid for the years 1268–72 , and the king 's envoys to the Council of Lyons in 1274 registered a protest against the feudal bond .
11 Every child knows that a country which ceased to work , I will not say for a year , but for a few weeks , would die .
12 I was nearly in love , I was proposed to a couple of times ; on the other hand , I once went for a year without men , without sex — both seemed too much trouble .
13 Jean Braendlin , the Toulon prop , was yesterday banned for a year by the French Rugby Federation for kicking a grounded opponent on Saturday .
14 ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . )
15 In August the Slovene delegation to the Skupština launched a strong criticism of the new system , which , it maintained ( EP , 24 August 1987 ) , had ‘ irrefutably shown for a year and a half that it is inefficient , and that the centralization of foreign exchange , the administrative allocation of import entitlements , and priority for the servicing of debts have brought disastrous results for exports and for the inflow of foreign exchange ’ .
16 The final dividend is being held at 11.375p , to make a same-again total for the year of 17.5p .
17 It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more .
18 He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion .
19 Those with birthdays between July 10 and July 14 are particularly earmarked for a year of turning-points .
20 ‘ When we were young it was deep mourning for a year and half mourning for six months , ’ Pat said .
21 Up for grabs today is a K-Reg Metro 1.4s , worth around £10,000 on the road which will come to our winner fully taxed for a year and with a full tank of petrol .
22 Today 's super prize is a Rover Metro 1.1s , worth around £9,500 on the road , which will come to our winner fully taxed for a year and with a full tank of petrol .
23 When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics .
24 After graduation he held house appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary ( RVI ) , Newcastle upon Tyne , and then worked for a year in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before becoming house physician at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London ( 1939 ) .
25 After the Law Society Finals she served articles in private practice in Cambridge and then worked for a year as a litigation assistant in a branch office of a Suffolk firm in Mildenhall .
26 In the second of her reports on the build-up to the show , Harriet Ryley joins two of the exhibitors anxiously waiting for a year 's work to come to fruition .
27 John Richmond , of MCMS at Torness , recently returned for a year at Kozloduy NPP in Bulgaria where he was Engineer responsible for Requalification Testing with the WANO team .
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