Example sentences of "a year [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As few as 2 or 3 a year opt for this method of preserving the memory of a devoted pet . |
| 2 | About 5,500 people a year qualify for compensation after being seriously disabled by work-related disease such as deafness , RSI , skin disease and lung damage . |
| 3 | But it seems to me it 's the person , people drinking the coffee who are getting the perk , therefore they should have twenty pounds a year added for free coffee providers |
| 4 | The franchising industry has over 110,000 people in direct employment , and a sales figure ( at today 's prices ) of £5 billion a year projected for 1990 . |
| 5 | On top of this BR now has to find an extra £100m a year to pay for an unnecessarily large safety programme , one result of the Clapham rail crash . |
| 6 | Mr Bull , 75 , said he would not have too much difficulty in finding the extra £15 a year to pay for the new road tax fees and would economise on petrol . |
| 7 | At the same time the fees were raised to £4 a year to pay for this , and Book-keeping as a subject was dropped . |
| 8 | THE average British employee wastes a week and a half of work time a year waiting for the kettle to boil for tea , a report claimed yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ £8,000 a year allocated for external course fees , travel and subsistence , plus an estimated £6,500 per annum indirectly spent on staff library training films , video tapes etc . ‘ |
| 10 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 11 | The two key protective factors are the highly competitive nature of the mortgage market and the preponderance of mortgage budget schemes which are altered just once a year to cater for interest rate fluctuations . |
| 12 | They have to earn £20,000 a year to qualify for the charge card . |
| 13 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 14 | She spent a year working for the writer Charles Morgan , but all the time her real purpose was somehow to work with Eliot himself . |
| 15 | In two months he will earn what he earned in a year working for the Pentagon . |
| 16 | A survey conducted by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals in 1988 found that students outside London , after paying for board and lodgings , had £380 a year left for all other expenses , and students in London were even worse off with only £109 a year . |