Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | David , 21 , of Hemingstone near Ipswich won the Kidsons Impey Award of a year 's free accountancy and tax advice at the Suffolk Livewire Awards . |
| 2 | I remember one time before he met Hilda — he seemed to have a different lass every Saturday night for a year or more . |
| 3 | Helvin says that their break-up was so amicable that she did not move out of this Primrose Hill house for a year after the split ; simply moved upstairs to another bedroom . |
| 4 | We 've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year , but it 's just the odd day basically . |
| 5 | One student , Nick Tinari , has been banned from the Barnes grounds for a year for trying to document violations of Barnes ' will . |
| 6 | With very little effort Diana brought two fine young boys into the world , Prince William within a year of marriage and Prince Harry in September 1984 ( and are there more to come ? ) . |
| 7 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 8 | Football : UEFA halves Ajax ban to a year |
| 9 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 10 | ‘ I worked for Vincent O'Brien for a year and it 's great to come back here and win my first classic , ’ said trainer John Gosden . |
| 11 | In 1692 Bart took more than 100 prizes into St Malo within a year and in the following year , with three frigates from Dunkirk , he made three destructive raids into the North Sea , spreading panic as far as Newcastle . |
| 12 | FORMER Middlesbrough rider Daz Sumner is to return to Cleveland Park on a year 's loan from Belle Vue . |
| 13 | SO FAR disappointing , Aviva Petroleum near a year 's low at 170p should have more good news on acreage soon , say followers . |
| 14 | I was told that there was a position at Dehon House for a year 's employment and would I be interested ? |
| 15 | Getting a little gratification often is infinitely better than trying to become Edward Van Halen in a year and failing … ! ’ |
| 16 | He went to the National Broadcasting School on a programming foundation course , then worked for P&O liners for a year , presenting radio programmes on cruises . |
| 17 | Normally this will be within six weeks of the end of the calendar quarter , but smaller businesses whose sales to other EC countries in a year do not exceed £10,500 out of a total turnover of £59,500 , need only submit a list of their customers ' registration numbers on an annual basis . |
| 18 | ‘ But Mr Carson and I are only in New York for a year , ’ Mrs Carson pointed out . |
| 19 | IBM is now saying the Taligent operating environment , its joint venture with Apple , wo n't be able to run OS/2 , Mac or AIX applications until a year after its first release . |