Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | I come from Holland and in Amsterdam toy robots ( especially Japanese ones and deleted ones from Holland ) have been accessories for over a year now . |
| 3 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
| 4 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 5 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 6 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 7 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 8 | Britain 's trade gap almost doubled last month with the worst figures for almost a year . |
| 9 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 10 | His announcement implies that he had made pendulum clocks at least a year before then . |
| 11 | A dispute which had soured Israeli-US relations for over a year ended on Feb. 20 when Baker telephoned Levi to inform him that he had signed a guarantee for a US$400,000,000 loan for the housing of immigrants , mainly Soviet Jews . |
| 12 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend the Minister of State will understand why there is reluctance to change a system that has served us well and to reduce the frequency of inspections from once every year to once every four years . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 15 | ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’ |
| 16 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 17 | In the early 1970s , in New York city , one David Berkowitz terrorised residents for over a year with random shootings of young women and their friends . |
| 18 | Richard Baxter continued preaching in these churches for about a year until 1662 , when he was forbidden by law from any further public ministry . |