Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [conj] a year " in BNC.
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1 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
2 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
3 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
4 | The authority aim to cut the number of patients waiting more than a year , and meet the national target of no patients waiting more than two years . |
5 | ‘ Numbers waiting more than a year have already been significantly reduced from 367 to 293 at the end of January , ’ said Mr Flook . |
6 | The complex was rebuilt after a firebomb attack more than a year ago , and its owners certainly have made the most of the opportunity . |
7 | This means that the breeding cycle takes more than a year to complete , with the result that the birds are unable to breed every year . |
8 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
9 | This superb musical partnership , which began less than a year ago , is now firmly established — indeed Kieran and Frances have just completed their first album which is due for release in the New Year . |
10 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
11 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |
12 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
13 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
14 | Consequently the June ‘ xuechao ’ was contained , but not before it had seriously worried the leadership and the students had made a number of important points which would resurface less than a year later . |
15 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
16 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
17 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
18 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |
19 | ENGLAND fly-half Rob Andrew is returning to Wasps after playing less than a year with French club Toulouse . |
20 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |
21 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
22 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
23 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
24 | This enterprise lasted less than a year . |
25 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
26 | But it did n't last more than a year . |
27 | The row comes less than a year after Lovell had to rehouse 17 families in nearby Kites Close after it was discovered THEIR homes were crumbling . |
28 | We must remember , however , that today 's uprating comes more than a year after the Conservative leadership coup and that there can be no excuse for the provisions . |