Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 2 | Crestworth Trading , the company which originally made the lamp , started work on them again in 1990 and turnover has tripled in a year and a half . |
| 3 | The Objectivity/DB database from Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , which DEC has offered for a year , will be marketed as DEC Object/DB from September , also under Open VMS and RISC/Ultrix . |
| 4 | He seeks more time and he has asked for a year or more . |
| 5 | That 's sticking a plaster on the cash haemorrhage of what will be the biggest sum a British Government has borrowed in a year . |
| 6 | The numbers of men , women and children covered by home care with 24 hour on call has doubled in a year . |
| 7 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 8 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 9 | erm I , I agree with Ann , not about the government , but I agree that I do n't think anything very obvious will have changed in a year erm but I do n't think it depends on the government . |
| 10 | The guys at ADM Computing suggested at the first meeting that I save a few quid by opting for a Phillips Brilliance monitor instead of the NEC I 've coveted for a year . |
| 11 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 12 | ‘ That was the hardest training I 've done for a year , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Sir Anthony famously discovered in Cardiff this month what the rest of the country had known for a year : that many children saw the grisly film and were delighted by his Oscar-winning portrayal of the cannibalistic anti-hero . |
| 14 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 15 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 16 | But your difficulty , surely , is that even if sanctions had worked for a year or even two years , you would still be left with that formidable monster of a regime … |
| 17 | Yes , indeed , they told me at the tabac , the old building had stood until a year or so ago . |
| 18 | Why it is , it 's very , very , very wrong , say we pay all year round for that , I 've paid for a year for my ticket |
| 19 | I 've missed the one in January now and I think , oh , I 've paid for a year but |
| 20 | They had married within a year . |
| 21 | National statistics released this week showed the cost of vandalism and arson attacks on schools had doubled in a year from £60m. to £120m . |
| 22 | Land prices in some areas have trebled in a year . |