Example sentences of "a [adj] year [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a below-par year caused by injury and examination pressure , she is once again approaching medal-winning form . |
| 2 | It means Aylesbury Vale Health Authority will now be able to comply will the new patients charter , which says a 2 year wait for treatment should be the maximum . |
| 3 | If after 1 year of a 2 year contract the insured is made unemployed cover under the policy exists until the end of the 2nd year subject to the terms and conditions of the policy . |
| 4 | It took Caillié eleven years of meticulous planning and a further year to reach the fabled city in 1828 , which turned out to be rather a disappointment to him after such a hazardous journey . |
| 5 | Almost certainly there is an equivalent number of young females in the non-breeding population , but these take a further year to reach maturity . |
| 6 | The process of designing the Act took nearly two years ; Butler took a further year to steer it through Parliament . |
| 7 | For the former , he is dealing with 13 lots of discussions ( including Scotland ) , although the contracts for some plants have a further year to run . |
| 8 | Students who do well in the three years of the MA(General) may choose to proceed for a further year to obtain the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 9 | After lengthy debates in each national parliament , ratification took a further year to complete . |
| 10 | Of the remaining quarter , one in five needed a further year to become pregnant . |
| 11 | The crew 's immediate aims are Neptune and Queen 's Regattas followed by Limerick as they quietly built towards bringing the Senior Pot back to Belfast after a 30 year wait . |
| 12 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 13 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 14 | Outside the bathroom door the long dead news Is served again in dozens of reviews ; The colour sups dementedly parade Pictorial pickings from the past decade : A cast of horribly familiar faces , The winners of a hundred one-horse races , The media icons of a 10 year binge When loads of money was society 's hinge — Money for an image or a slogan ; Money — lots and lots — for Terry Wogan , And other stars who live the live of Riley : Madonna , Joan ( and Jackie ) Collins , Kylie … |
| 15 | He 's served 6 years of a 10 year stretch for armed robbery . |
| 16 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 17 | So I thought well I got it kind a three year have n't I ? |
| 18 | Ruddock , 25 , signed a three year deal when he moved to Spurs from Southampton for £750,000 12 months ago , and claimed Venables promised him a renegotiated contract if his first season went well . |
| 19 | The aircraft , one of only two airworthy Kingcobras in the world , had just finished a three year rebuild by the Chino-based Fighter Rebuilders ( illustrated ) . |
| 20 | The following month the legal process smiled more kindly on Charlie Nicholas when a three year drink driving ban was shortened by a year allowing him to buy a new £11,000 Porsche . |
| 21 | Though two of the G7 countries — Britain and America — now appear to be in recession , the likeliest outlook for the world in 1991 is a tolerable mixture of slower growth and lower inflation than of late , with a brighter year to follow in 1992 . |
| 22 | It was one of the worst years ever for the construction industry and many a card this Christmas carried a message that 1992 was a good year to see the back of and the hope that in 1993 things may start to look brighter . |
| 23 | 1962 is a good year to begin the story . |
| 24 | Companies managing to buck the recession by having a good year include computer games manufacturers , cosmetics companies , food processors and shipbuilders . |
| 25 | For instance , Labour in a good year used to hold a dozen or more seats in rural East Anglia and the northern Home Counties . |
| 26 | She 's been at grammar school a good year has n't she ? |
| 27 | This case is n't unusual for Milton Keynes Police … last year a sixteen year committed 56 separate crimes before he lost his freedom … |
| 28 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 29 | ‘ Editorial highlights of a busy year included the much praised Answers for Ulster series which provided three viewpoints on ways forward coinciding with the talks by Peter Brooke , ’ said Mr Barrons . |
| 30 | This dramatic reduction has been accompanied by a major change in course provision ; during recent years , the three-year Certificate of Education course , followed for a minority of students by a fourth year leading to a Bachelor of Education degree , has been completely replaced by integrated three- and four-year courses leading to ordinary and honours BEd degrees respectively . |