Example sentences of "for a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you are pregnant , and for a year after your baby is born , you can get free prescriptions for your medicines . |
| 2 | … bloody man is in the fast-lane ; comes off at junction 7 for a year or so here , and then he 'll be off and away at junction 8 , on to his chief 's job somewhere else … and look at him ! |
| 3 | ‘ This is a castle , not a cottage , we could sit here in safety for a year . ’ |
| 4 | I have n't had a job for a year now . |
| 5 | Discovered at one of the LTA 's 3 Star Clubs at King George 's Comprehensive school , by the father of local professional coach Harvey Slater ( who now coaches the youngster ) , Joanne , who is about to leave school for a year of full time playing , is one of the few British juniors who has the ability to ‘ kick ’ and break from the pack . |
| 6 | If Travellers Fare did not wish to provide a service on a train , there should be none ; if they closed a refreshment room , it had to lie idle for a year before a private operator was allowed to take over . |
| 7 | Exit the Class 45 ‘ Peaks ’ , the last surviving locomotives built at Derby Works — and Flying Scotsman to Australia for a year 's tour . |
| 8 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 9 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |
| 10 | Knighton , Derbyshire-born and a professional for a year with Coventry City , was a teacher until 1984 when he took up property dealing . |
| 11 | Jean Braendlin , the Toulon prop , was yesterday banned for a year by the French Rugby Federation for kicking a grounded opponent on Saturday . |
| 12 | Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed . |
| 13 | Celtic Chief will be out of action for a year while he recovers from a leg injury sustained in last season 's Champion Hurdle . |
| 14 | The 50 women received group therapy for a year , in three groups visiting hopsital weekly for their sessions . |
| 15 | Apart from carrying enough controlled substances in his G-string to keep Spain happy for a year , Tanit has the divine attribute of being everywhere at once . |
| 16 | Gennady Voronov , another Politburo member of 1964 , says that the plot was in progress for a year , although he was not in the know . |
| 17 | For investors who do not want to tie up their money for a year in an income bond , Town & Country 's ( tel : 01-353 1476 ) new Classic investment account is paying 12 per cent net of basic rate tax for sums of £25,000 and over . |
| 18 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 19 | In 1990 the Sunday Mirror and Sporting Life ran a competition to win a racehorse for a year ; the horse was a two-year-old colt by the name of ‘ Battle of Britain ’ . |
| 20 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 21 | After he served for a year as a deacon he was ordained as a priest . |
| 22 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 23 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 24 | The first Kenyan African novelist was a man of anger , developing the marxist position that would eventually bring him detention without trial for a year , followed by exile . |
| 25 | My apprenticeship was in a shop for a year working and adapting and changing and getting an understanding of it all . |
| 26 | That 's six million pounds he 's getting for a year ! ’ |
| 27 | Two directors were suspended for a year and the chairman and manager banned from football for good . |
| 28 | Lewis anxiously opened The Times Literary Supplement every Friday for a year , hoping far a good notice for the poem . |
| 29 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 30 | After researching the project for a year , Paul Vincent decided to look for premises with a shop front that would make the centre easily accessible . |