Example sentences of "it [prep] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 2 | She stood it for a year . |
| 3 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 4 | Leave it for a year , and you 'll have established a pattern which will be hard to break . |
| 5 | A silver cup , purchased by subscription the following year , was to be competed for annually , the winning captain to hold it for a year . |
| 6 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 7 | What I think the danger is there , from a Conservative political perspective , is that having , having , Liberals having with us if you like , got the principle through , Liberals may then go with the Labour party and say right we 've got the principle through , we 've identified four homes , let's have a refurbishment programme , a bit of airport money here , a bit of slippage there and we 'll get this through and then we 'll tackle the problem of closures and if closures is proving difficult let's ignore it for a year , let's do these four and let's go on . |
| 8 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 9 | ‘ The course started in 1991 and those students who have completed two years will be awarded diplomas and those who have followed it for a year will get certificates . ’ |
| 10 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 11 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 12 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 13 | I 'd love to see them manage on it for a year |
| 14 | you know after he gets out from here on a temporary basis sort of thing , so that erm Christopher says he 's gon na be doing it for a year this lecturing , but it 's very nice for him because he 'll be able to contact him and Bob will help him if it 's necessary |
| 15 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Phelan is referring to my promise to read the Bible at a rate of five chapters a day , thus finishing it in a year . |
| 17 | Higher rate taxpayers face a liability to an extra 15% tax if the income is withdrawn , but it is possible to roll up the interest and take it in a year when the investor is only a basic rate taxpayer . |
| 18 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 19 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 20 | If you stand over Wembley Stadium and pour ice cream into it we 'd almost fill it in a year . |
| 21 | And I can see it in a year I I 'll give it , give dad er about eighteen months |
| 22 | Moreover , apart from this defect , the election could not be regarded as complete until he had received his pallium from the pope , and he would be liable to deposition unless he received it within a year of his consecration . |
| 23 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |