Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 2 | I do n't want to think I 've wasted almost a year of my working life on an abort . |
| 3 | A week later I transferred an Emperor Peckoltia ( which I have had over a year ) and added a new Emperor Peckoltia which was purchased from Wholesale Tropicals of Bethnal Green . |
| 4 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 5 | — Graham Robb , Tory candidate for hartlepool , said a three-year-old girl whose father claims she has waited over a year for surgery is to get her operation . |
| 6 | ‘ I think after you 've worked about a year in the job you find that you start off by seeing pollutions . |
| 7 | So we 're in ninety three ninety four we 've got about a year and a bit before we actually have to start really doing something |
| 8 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 10 | However , since he had served nearly a year in prison whilst awaiting trial he was released on completion of the trial , the sentence being reduced for good conduct . |