Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the negotiations between the three publishers jostling for position went on for over a year without reaching a conclusion : ‘ It was very difficult to find common ground and make sure that everyone had their fair share . ’ |
| 2 | I 've got ta try hand it on for over a year then I went to live again . |
| 3 | A major Cabinet dispute rumbled on for nearly a year . |
| 4 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 5 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 6 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 7 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 8 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 9 | thank you so within either a year or maybe something approaching two years of the existence of the brochures with those words in you raise the concern , that it might be misleading if left in |
| 10 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 11 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 12 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 13 | These civil laws allow judges to grant an " interim injunction " to stop publication until the trial of the action — which is usually at least a year afterwards . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 15 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 16 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 17 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 18 | He did n't , you did n't take out for nearly a year though in n it Bedge ? |
| 19 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
| 20 | Glasgow District Council decided last month to release its £90,000 grant for 1992-93 to the RSNO after holding it back for almost a year . |
| 21 | Himself a farmer , almost for 30 years an MP , now with almost a year as minister under his belt , Sir Hector was his usual affable self , seldom referring to his backing group of Scottish Office specialists . |
| 22 | Even so , original estimates that the plans would cost $150 million have already risen by 20 per cent and the finishing time been put back at least a year until 1996 . |
| 23 | But , I , what I ca n't understand is , why all of a sudden does he want her back and see the children , well for over a year he kept her away ? |
| 24 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 25 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |
| 26 | Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981 . |
| 27 | All three have been attending Medau classes regularly for over a year now an have taken part in rallies etc . |
| 28 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 29 | It estimates that ACAS could accelerate the schedule COSE 's been kicking around by about a year . |
| 30 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |