Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [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 | 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% . |
6 | Football : UEFA halves Ajax ban to a year |
7 | FORMER Middlesbrough rider Daz Sumner is to return to Cleveland Park on a year 's loan from Belle Vue . |
8 | SO FAR disappointing , Aviva Petroleum near a year 's low at 170p should have more good news on acreage soon , say followers . |
9 | I was told that there was a position at Dehon House for a year 's employment and would I be interested ? |