Example sentences of "of [noun] for a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were among four Russian boys who travelled to Westonbirt school near Tetbury to meet two Russian girl orphans , who 'll be educated free of change for a year . |
| 2 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 3 | Celtic Chief will be out of action for a year while he recovers from a leg injury sustained in last season 's Champion Hurdle . |
| 4 | 905,000 out of work for a year |
| 5 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 6 | Young Martin 's been out of work for a year now , ever since he left school . |
| 7 | Builder Ivan James has been out of work for a year . |
| 8 | The total of people out of work for a year rose by 75,000 in the three months to January and has more than doubled since it started increasing in October 1987 . |
| 9 | Keyboard player Mark Taylor played a SY99/TG77 combination which will form the main part of his keyboard rig when the show hits the road at the end of May for a year long world tour . |
| 10 | In the Commercial Union building alone almost three acres — 2,000 panes — of toughened glass must be replaced , according to Mr Ray Morley , a marketing manager of the insurance firm , who said yesterday that the building would be out of service for a year . |
| 11 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 12 | For cereals the " co-responsibility levy " on production — to help pay for storing and disposing of surpluses — was raised from 3 to 5 per cent ( rather than 6 per cent as proposed by the Commission ) except for farmers taking 15 per cent of their land out of production for a year . |