Example sentences of "time [prep] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 2 | First is the drastic effects for the borrower who fails to save up ahead of a re-adjustment when rates rise three or four times in a year . |
| 3 | ( A century earlier , one unfortunate individual had been imprisoned twelve times in a year — one month at a time — under the local Act . ) |
| 4 | When I run away twelve months later I took two 'undred and nineteen pennies with me , which meant I 'd showed him me legs two 'undred and nineteen times in a year . |
| 5 | You will need to restring your racket as many times in a year as you play in a week . |
| 6 | We find a factory who 's not met its standards eight times in a year , and what do we do about it ? |
| 7 | You can go to a stream fifty times in a year , but you 've got to poke your head over the bridge — both sides — to be sure . ’ |
| 8 | That is why we have cut interest rates seven times in a year and halved inflation in a year , have the lowest number of strikes for half a century and have cut the basic rate of tax . |
| 9 | A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again . |
| 10 | Where it was twice or three times in a year . |
| 11 | In fact if you add it up the moon can go round the earth thirteen times in a year . |
| 12 | One intended to go to Gateshead college full time for a year to do five GCSEs , but was unable to get a grant or income support because she did not qualify under the 22-hour rule and so reluctantly decided to attend part time instead . |
| 13 | ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . " |
| 14 | I mean , I 'm really looking forward to I mean most of your bloody time within a year I 'm getting out you can start doing what you want then , but when you do n't have that regular period you do n't know how you 're gon na react to your own , you 've got |
| 15 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 16 | First time in a year she has n't waited for Jo so they can do their shopping together . |
| 17 | It is the second time in a year the body of a baby has been found in the street . |
| 18 | But he has to go some to outshine Dean Richards , dropped for the second time in a year . |
| 19 | WOLVES winger Robbie Dennison has been recalled to Northern Ireland 's squad for the first time in a year . |
| 20 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 21 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 22 | KPMG Peat Marwick point out that ‘ for the first time in a year , the number of companies failing has deceased . |
| 23 | The windows have been cleaned for the first time in a year , and what with my contact lenses ( which I 've had since Christmas ) , the view is much improved . |
| 24 | It was the sixth time in a year he 'd been a victim of crime , but this time the culprits , two youths , had been arrested . |
| 25 | It is the fourth time in a year that the popular south Belfast hotel has been bombed . |
| 26 | It 's the second time in a year that the same company has had produce destroyed by French farmers angry about EC imports . |
| 27 | It 's the second time in a year that the haulage company Ralph Davies of Cheltenham has had fruit cargoes destroyed . |
| 28 | It 's the third time in a year Johnson has escaped — his last breakout was from Maidstone Prison . |
| 29 | He says that it 's the second time in a year the house has been flooded . |
| 30 | More rain is expected during the night — that 's bad news for families like the Chapmans — flooded for the second time in a year . |