Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 2 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 3 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 4 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 5 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 6 | It 'll take Bernard and Megan at least a year and a half to make all 59 of the instruments . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 8 | I noticed Pemberton at least a year ago and thought what a good player he was . |
| 9 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 10 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 11 | Is it because I am consumed with envy when I pass the Woodborough bookshop , and there is Eleanor 's newest novel in a special display , and with resentment because I have n't heard from Mary for over a year because she is so busy now , commuting to Brussels being a Euro-lawyer ? |
| 12 | But even then the only player of note Cardiff themselves lost was Mark Ring , and he returned from Pontypool after just a year . |
| 13 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 14 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 15 | Belgium had been a part of France till just a year before , and many folk in this part of the province resented being made a part of the Netherlands . |
| 16 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 17 | Henry III 's youngest sister married , in 1238 , Simon de Montfort , Earl of Leicester , who wanted royal policy to be controlled by a ‘ Parliament ’ with representatives from the larger towns , and he effectively kept Henry III and his son , captive at Lewes for over a year . |
| 18 | Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year . |
| 19 | It may even be that in Kent for about a year after Ecgberht 's death , ‘ Wulfhere could have been the effective ruler ’ . |
| 20 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 21 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 22 | The Gowrie faction guarded James for almost a year , issuing decrees in his name while claiming that he was their willing guest . |
| 23 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |