Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a year [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has been muttering about migrating to RISC technology for the AS/400 processor for a year or so now , and the company is now talking openly about it , saying that the AS/400 will move to a RISC , but not until several criteria are met . |
| 2 | Lord King will remain non-executive chairman for a year and will then become life president . |
| 3 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 6 | It was not so long a walk , though it led her back in twenty minutes through a year and a half of her life , and was quick with memories both sharp and sweet . |
| 7 | Celtic Chief will be out of action for a year while he recovers from a leg injury sustained in last season 's Champion Hurdle . |
| 8 | It is all very well to delay the onset of a retinopathy for a year or two , but to achieve this , is it justifiable that a diabetic has no social life and a poorer quality of life for 20 years ? |
| 9 | My wardrobe may not be as current these days , and I hardly saw a movie for a year and a half while I was getting myself back on my feet financially . |
| 10 | So you just sit and watch the telly for a year and not do anything he 's not gon na be very good |
| 11 | His mother allowed him to sit out college for a year and he never went back . |
| 12 | The numbers of consultations , home visits and night calls reported for those in such homes for a year or more before they died are compared with those for others under the care of a general practitioner in Table 4 . |
| 13 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 14 | However , for one in five of the people in residential homes for a year or more , our respondents said that there were relatives who they felt might have visited more often . |
| 15 | Having impounded these two sets for the time , we give our full attention to such influences as the inducements which good fishing wages will offer to sailors to stay in their fishing homes for a year or two , instead of applying for work on a ship . |
| 16 | It is still more likely than not that all EC countries will have ratified the Maastricht Treaty by the end of 1993 , and it can then be left to one side for a year or so while the easing of German monetary policy and a return to positive European economic growth ease the pains of convergence . |
| 17 | I 've owned a house on the coast for a year or so , and decided to leave the car in the garage there when I went to the Middle East . ’ |
| 18 | It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more . |
| 19 | It has also allowed him to boost outputs with the Mengele forager , an important benefit for a contractor needing to cover as many acres in a year as possible . |
| 20 | The latest initiative is the Livingston Software Innovation Centre — this is the only organisation in Europe that aims to remove the hassles plaguing start-up companies , by providing them with ‘ a nice roof over their heads ’ free of charge for the vital six months to a year before they start making money . |
| 21 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 22 | Skinhead haircuts & Crombies missed each other by the better part of a year & ‘ crombie boys ’ as they became known , often had shoulder length hair . |
| 23 | Thus , one large contract caterer in a northern city with a high unemployment rate , whose casuals consisted almost entirely of otherwise unemployed people , estimated that as many as four times the number of people passed through its list of those available for casual work in the course of a year than were on that list at any one point in time . |
| 24 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 25 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 26 | The growth in the numbers who have been without work for a year or more has been perhaps the most disturbing aspect of today 's unemployment , despite the Department of Employment 's interviewing of all the long-term unemployed , and the Government 's recent recognition of the need to direct job appointments at those who have been standing in the queue longest . |
| 27 | He thought about the plot for a year or two , but when he sat down to write it late last year , it came very quickly . ’ |
| 28 | get , you know , get them in and say and say look yo well you 're gon na save money on the pints well give us four box coolers for a year and you |
| 29 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 30 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |