Example sentences of "and [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disease , and only a year later — they 're dead ? |
| 2 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |
| 3 | Harris did n't get on with Kirk Douglas when they made The Heroes of Telemark in 1965 ( but then at that time few got on with Douglas ) , and just a year earlier he crossed swords with Mr Epic himself , Charlton Heston , on the set of Major Dundee in Mexico . |
| 4 | In February 1612 Will 's brother Gilbert died in London , and just a year later his brother Richard died in Stratford . |
| 5 | By the beginning of 1939 , he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially , and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy , and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry — the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler . |
| 6 | Once a year she gets her hair permed and once a year she buys face powder . |
| 7 | They changed to a strategy-management mode in which each of the business heads met with the entire executive board once a year to define strategic objectives and once a year to establish a budget . |
| 8 | They had been his father 's personal bodyguards , ready and able to defend him with their lives , and once a year they still performed this fierce dance inside the mosque from sunset to sunrise without pause . |
| 9 | The sprightly pensioner likes to share her love of nature and once a year throws open the gates to her home in Abbey Road . |
| 10 | , Thomas ( fl. 1589–1638 ) , land surveyor , was certainly practising by 1589 and possibly a year or two earlier . |
| 11 | They have been responsible locally , particularly in areas of the highest deprivation , and they are paying surcharges to local councils of £20 , £50 , £70 and more a year for those who can not pay the poll tax . |
| 12 | So , after two years of design and development and nearly a year in the building , what happens now ? |
| 13 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 14 | They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 . |
| 15 | But I could n't forget , and about a year later , I saw a friend in town . |
| 16 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 17 | But the memory of being caught and injected never faded , and even a year later the cat would still rush upstairs and hide beneath the bed if ever a man visited the house . |
| 18 | A community is always changing and evolving , and even a year 's study ( three years in the case of the Banbury study ) barely touches on this process . |
| 19 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 20 | Worse , and more important , it was an England in which he first ceased to have a role , and then a year or so later acquired a minor and disagreeable one . |
| 21 | Her daughter died of cancer and then a year later her |
| 22 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 23 | Her daughter died of cancer and then a year later her |
| 24 | Q I have two little daughters , aged two and almost a year . |
| 25 | The Clarks sued through their solicitor , and over a year later , after much bitter argument , agreed to accept £3,450 from the surveyor 's insurers . |
| 26 | It took over 10 months to take a case through the ABTA conciliation and arbitration scheme and over a year through the one run by the Glass and Glazing Federation ( GGF ) . |
| 27 | Now , because of the seasonal variation , it can provide a lot of your hot water in the summer , but not very much in the winter and over a year , with a rooftop solar panel installation , you could perhaps expect to heat half your hot water by solar energy . |
| 28 | At 16 Gallacher signed for Tannochside Athletic , a Lanarkshire juvenile team and barely a year later he married a catholic girl , Annie McIlvaney , causing untold disputes within his family . |
| 29 | The principal carers were to be interviewed on two occasions , firstly at or around the time of the sufferer 's first interview and secondly a year later . |