Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 2 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 3 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 4 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 5 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 6 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 7 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 8 | As a result , it was out of action for over a year . |
| 9 | In this case , the idea for a new church was in the leader 's mind for over a year before conception . |
| 10 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 11 | Goulding is set to link up with his hometown club after only a year at Leeds after his £90,000 move from Wigan . |
| 12 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 13 | My music then had an unfortunate break of nearly a year when I was eight years old ; we moved house . |
| 14 | It is also important to note the time gap of nearly a year between the murder and the letter to Katkov . |
| 15 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |
| 16 | There was an armful of Mills and Boon love stories on the mantelpiece bearing witness to nearly a year of quiet , no television or radio , only romances by candlelight . |
| 17 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 18 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 19 | By 1983 , unemployment had reached over 12 per cent , and long-term unemployment ( defined as being without work for over a year ) had emerged as a significant economic and social issue . |
| 20 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 21 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 22 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 23 | Sharon Turnbull has been training in articles with Newcastle City Council for nearly a year . |
| 24 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 25 | So I had a job for about a year er in a fruit shop and then I did n't like the Saturday work |
| 26 | Citing Paul Wilkinson , professor of international relations at St Andrew 's University and head of the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism , as a leading proponent of this view , she reported that he had known about the timer match for almost a year . |
| 27 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 28 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 29 | She has been in the business for about a year yeah . |
| 30 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |