Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 2 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 3 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 4 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 5 | thank you so within either a year or maybe something approaching two years of the existence of the brochures with those words in you raise the concern , that it might be misleading if left in |
| 6 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 7 | These civil laws allow judges to grant an " interim injunction " to stop publication until the trial of the action — which is usually at least a year afterwards . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 9 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 10 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 11 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
| 12 | Himself a farmer , almost for 30 years an MP , now with almost a year as minister under his belt , Sir Hector was his usual affable self , seldom referring to his backing group of Scottish Office specialists . |
| 13 | But , I , what I ca n't understand is , why all of a sudden does he want her back and see the children , well for over a year he kept her away ? |
| 14 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 15 | It was hard to believe that Howarth had worked here for almost a year . |
| 16 | Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981 . |
| 17 | All three have been attending Medau classes regularly for over a year now an have taken part in rallies etc . |
| 18 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 19 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |
| 20 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 21 | ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum . |
| 22 | And erm I was there for about a year . |