Example sentences of "a year and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Double marking raises problems for staff already under great pressure of examining three times a year and also working within the tight deadlines of examination week . |
| 2 | His musical ability — and he was entirely self-taught — enlivened the dale for many a year and even reached the ears of the outside world when he was talent-spotted by the BBC . |
| 3 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 4 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 5 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 6 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 7 | Incidentally , bitches may not be bred from more than once a year and strictly not when under the age of two years old and dogs of two years and under may not be used at stud . |
| 8 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |
| 9 | They slip and slide against each other — somewhat ponderously , since they proceed at no more than a foot a year and sometimes a great deal less . |
| 10 | Which of course charge nurses are n't getting anywhere near twenty thousand pounds a year and only a few erm nursing officers . |
| 11 | So again the trend today is towards people having at least one overseas trip a year and possibly two or three short break weekends as well . |
| 12 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 13 | The babyfood market is worth many tens of millions of pounds a year and so the manufacturers have a great vested interest in when babies begin solids and what they eat . |
| 14 | They should be completely familiar with all exit routes and to this end should be exercised in evacuation procedures at least twice a year and more often if the contents of the warehouse are highly inflammable or explosive . |
| 15 | Attempts to trace one taxi in Istanbul , after a year and more , naturally fell flat . |
| 16 | ‘ Even if he remembers , it 's a year and more ago now , and he 'll remember to forget . ’ |
| 17 | The king had his fill of trying to find the Welsh in their own mountains , a year and more ago . |
| 18 | The 1993 shipment plan for the R4000 depends on the availability schedule of the multiprocessing version , delayed for a year and now in final testing , Brown said . |
| 19 | You know we we used to sell thousand of pounds worth a year and now we 're down to couple of thousand a year and we 're s , we are losing money on that . |
| 20 | Card fraud is costing the industry £165 million a year and now the battle against it is taking a hi tec turn . |
| 21 | She was in hospital for almost a year and now lives with her son in an adapted bungalow for disabled people run by social services in Gwent . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to take in 35 students a year and now we 're taking in 75 , more than twice as many . |
| 23 | Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs . |
| 24 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 25 | It was extended to Deanshanger in 1888 , but this only lasted a year and then it was closed , as was the track down Creed Street to the Wolverton Goods Yard in 1893 . |
| 26 | After leaving school Mackay was an apprentice in a publishing house for a year and then a university student for five semesters in Kiel , Leipzig and Berlin . |
| 27 | The machine gave good service for just over a year and then I bought my next one on interest-free credit . |
| 28 | One CSE Grade 1 is all he could muster from school , so , fired by the grim prospect of a factory job , he went to a college of further education where he gained four ‘ O ’ levels after a year and then took a job at a wholesale jewellers , where they were n't too optimistic about his chances of promotion . |
| 29 | For despite empty houses on its provincial tour , this wordy , intelligent , seemingly uncommercial verse drama was a success in London , ran for a year and then went over to Broadway . |
| 30 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |