Example sentences of "have [verb] a year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you have thought a year ago that you would be spending your next name-day in Paris ? |
| 2 | ( Of course , Natalie was n't silly ; she was , in fact , a year younger than the rest of the first-year students , having kept a year ahead at school . ) |
| 3 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 4 | But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier , and were certainly less widespread . |
| 5 | In almost all reports in 1942 , this ‘ war weariness ’ and longing for peace , now by no means always linked to expectations of glorious victory and often highly pessimistic , dominates much more strongly than it had done a year earlier . |
| 6 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 7 | He was an incredibly fit old man , whose wife had died a year ago . |
| 8 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 9 | The war ended in 1813 and as his father-in-law had died a year earlier , William was no longer required to manage the family affairs . |
| 10 | On election day , in June 1987 , 84 per cent of Mirror readers ( and only slightly less Guardian and Telegraph/Times/ Financial Times readers ) voted for the party they had preferred a year earlier , in the summer of 1986 . |
| 11 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 12 | She had spent a year here once , working as an au pair for the family of one of the big industrialists . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 14 | The same thing had happened a year ago when Peter Senior slipped past him . |
| 15 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 16 | What had once lasted a generation now lasted a year , what had lasted a year now lasted a month , a week , a day . |