Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 3 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 4 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 5 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 6 | The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them . |
| 7 | Of course , we have not done everthing in just a year , nor have we taken things forward in every aspect as much as we would have wished . |
| 8 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — the development kits for both the environments have been available for over a year . |
| 9 | Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina on-line transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — development kits for both environments have been available for over a year . |
| 10 | Demand for the new product , which has been available for around a year under MS-DOS , is apparently spiralling with orders received so far from British Telecommunications Plc , Sun Alliance , Citibank and retailer The Body Shop . |
| 11 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 13 | And er but for all this , erm funny enough we we had er a fair in twice a year . |
| 14 | Applicants with any disability are strongly advised to contact the Adviser to Students with Special Needs early and when possible at least a year before making formal application for entry to the University . |
| 15 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 16 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |