Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a year [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croft took a year 's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again . |
| 2 | Ian Gawthorpe , of Dale Farm Dairies , was accompanied by Radio One DJ Lynn Parsons on his morning round and customers who answered two simple questions won a year 's free milk and other goodies . |
| 3 | If a person completed a year 's hiring in a parish , or served a full period of apprenticeship , then the right of settlement shifted to that parish . |
| 4 | She had her own weekends , here in London , staying with Veronica , whose flat she was now looking after while its owner worked a year 's exchange course at UCLA . |
| 5 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 6 | There also lay embedded in the system the inequality of paying not for the job but for the qualifications : degrees received a year 's extra increment and as a result earnings differentials rose . |
| 7 | The 1825 parliament became a form for the discussion of national grievances and Count István offered a year 's income from his estates for the foundation of an Academy of Sciences . |