Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the illness lingered for over a year , and in the end the doctor decided that she must be suffering from depression . |
| 2 | As Sunday Life revealed two weeks ago , McGlinchey worked for over a year as a sales representative for Cornhill , which has hundreds of RUC men as clients . |
| 3 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 4 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 5 | The strike lasted for virtually a year , ending in April 1985 . |
| 6 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 7 | That situation only lasted for about a year and of course soon er the army was portrayed as the enemy , particularly by the I R A and the republican party and the republican population . |
| 8 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 9 | I 'd have felt so much better if this person had at least a year 's sentence . |
| 10 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |