Example sentences of "within a year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one-day matches England were now just about at rock bottom ; within a year they were very much on top . |
| 2 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 3 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 4 | Within a year he died as a result of injuries inflicted by his own machinery . |
| 5 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 6 | Within a year he could provide eight spectaculars , all ingeniously flexible to fit one- to three-hour bookings . |
| 7 | Within a year he had given detailed and authoritative evidence to the House of Commons and been instrumental in the passage of two bills which abolished gaolers ' fees and enabled counties to pay for a proper service ; which allowed discharged defendants to be set at liberty in open court ; and which not only improved sanitation and health arrangements but made it obligatory for justices to have a concern for the health of prisoners . |
| 8 | Within a year he found himself commissioned by Peter Mandelson , the Labour Party 's new director of campaigns and communications to write a report on the party 's communications strategy , working towards the 1987 election . |
| 9 | Within a year he had moved to a more creative agency and four years later was working at the then most creative agency in London . |
| 10 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |
| 11 | Within a year he was earning A$24,000 and a further $8,000 from his cleaning job . |
| 12 | And he , a huge crate over newspapers , hundred newspapers , to , when he first , so within a year he never touched it , so gradually I took one more and more . |
| 13 | 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 |