Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although former minisupercomputer maker Elxsi Corp disappeared from radar screens a year or three back , its Tata Elxsi Ltd former joint venture with the giant Indian conglomerate J R Tata Sons & Co Pte Ltd of Bombay is still in existence , and has just announced a joint venture with Mountain View , California-based Silicon Graphics Inc to expand their collaboration for the Indian market . |
| 2 | His contract has a year left to run , but even if first-choice status remains elusive until then , his sights will not be trained on a target outside the shire boundaries . |
| 3 | The programme involves a year of intensive language study and business exposure as well as six months secondment to two major Japanese organisations . |
| 4 | Concerns over its future surfaced a year ago and were heightened last week by the death of its director , Mr Brian Ponsford , whose body was found in a car at his north London home . |
| 5 | Ah yes , the partnership has a year to give it back . |
| 6 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
| 7 | Clearly there is a connection , if Eurofighter two thousand was available earlier then they the plan for replacing er some of the aircraft in the R A F's front line er could be adjusted accordingly erm but it 's not a sort of direct one for one er if the part of the programme slips a year the jaguar must go on an extra year because within the R A F's overall plans for its er fleet replacement there is a certain degree of flexibility an and precisely which point the jaguars get replaced is er a judgement between them and their three . |
| 8 | Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes . |
| 9 | Average orders for the three months to March in the US market rose 5.4% at $2,194m compared with the figure for the three months to February , and were 46.5% higher than the figure compiled a year ago . |
| 10 | Who knows , a return invitation may be forthcoming for the whole of the YF to spend a year in Kansas with WHAM , an opportunity QP would certainly want to embrace . |
| 11 | In a further study published a year later , the IMS considered in detail seven private sector service industries identified as the fastest growing job creators : retailing , wholesaling , hotels and catering , banking , building societies , insurance and business services . |
| 12 | Very , very confusing this is , the world is going upside down and he do n't know what 's going to happen next you see , for instance looking a year ago , two years ago the wall , the Berlin Wall was standing and the Russian empire was feared , all over the world , and now this day , it just fell on its face |
| 13 | An effort by $500m-a-year semiconductor maker Micron Technology Inc to develop its own 64-bit superscalar single-chip RISC processor has floundered , taking with it the subsidiary built a year ago to house it . |
| 14 | Mick Price , a quarter-finalist in the European Open a year ago , reached the last eight again after a 5-2 victory over former world champion Joe Johnson . |
| 15 | Mick Price , a quarter-finalist in the European Open a year ago , reached the last eight again after a 5-2 victory over former world champion Joe Johnson . |
| 16 | The Swiss played us off the field in both our European ties a year ago , yet we managed to take three points from them . |
| 17 | ‘ The marriage lasted a year , almost to the day . |
| 18 | The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments . |
| 19 | The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments . |
| 20 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 21 | The punishment came a year later . |
| 22 | Yesterday 's drama came a year and a day after the North Yorkshire shootings in which Special Constable Glenn Goodman was killed and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded by a hail of bullets fired by on-the-run IRA terrorist Paul Magee . |
| 23 | A HUSBAND buried a year ago is exhumed by his wife every day ‘ to enjoy the sunshine ’ , says a newspaper in Kampala , Uganda . |
| 24 | Court sources in Milan , where the so-called Mani Pulite ( Clean Hands ) investigation began a year ago , indicated that the two executives are suspected of having violated laws on political party financing . |
| 25 | For example , one CD-Rom stores a year 's supply of the Times and Sunday Times . |
| 26 | The band formed a year and a half ago with Terry Bickers , ex-House of Love . |
| 27 | He died in 1987 and her husband died a year later . |
| 28 | The same symptom recurred a year later when she took the oral contraceptive pill . |
| 29 | The 11th-hour courtroom drama follows a year of struggle by the tycoon — owner of Castlemaine XXXX lager — to keep his brewing , property , media and resources corporation alive despite debts of more than A$8billion . |
| 30 | The move comes a year before his six-year BBC contract ends . |