Example sentences of "[noun] for over a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
| 2 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
| 3 | I come from Holland and in Amsterdam toy robots ( especially Japanese ones and deleted ones from Holland ) have been accessories for over a year now . |
| 4 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 5 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 6 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 7 | As a result , it was out of action for over a year . |
| 8 | In this case , the idea for a new church was in the leader 's mind for over a year before conception . |
| 9 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 10 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 11 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 12 | By 1983 , unemployment had reached over 12 per cent , and long-term unemployment ( defined as being without work for over a year ) had emerged as a significant economic and social issue . |
| 13 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 14 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 15 | I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems . |
| 16 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 17 | Yet so many people seem to have a mental block on this point , rushing for those little bottles when common sense should tell them that they can not possibly have some dreadful plague as they have n't introduced any new fish for over a year ! |
| 18 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 20 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 21 | X/Open , which has been in negotiations with OSF for over a year now , was supposed to have incorporated DCE into its Common Applications Environment some time ago : that announcement is also on ice until the two can work something out . |
| 22 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 23 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , has announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 25 | Start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , last week announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 26 | A dispute which had soured Israeli-US relations for over a year ended on Feb. 20 when Baker telephoned Levi to inform him that he had signed a guarantee for a US$400,000,000 loan for the housing of immigrants , mainly Soviet Jews . |
| 27 | Is it because I am consumed with envy when I pass the Woodborough bookshop , and there is Eleanor 's newest novel in a special display , and with resentment because I have n't heard from Mary for over a year because she is so busy now , commuting to Brussels being a Euro-lawyer ? |
| 28 | And so she settled down quietly into our family life for over a year , until one of the aunts , Aunt Kate , came to see us , and after that there was talk between our parents — children always know these things , having good ears — about it perhaps being best now for Grandma to be going back to her little house in Hampshire . |
| 29 | DEACON Blue will begin their first tour for over a year at the newly revamped Ingliston auditorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
| 30 | More than 10,000 joined the peace meeting celebrating the dismantling of the ‘ Green Line ’ war boundary which has divided the capital for over a year . |