Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I say over a year now difficulty . |
| 2 | ‘ I was quite lucky to get my degree , had I gone up a year later I probably would n't have done . |
| 3 | There is also a Senior Liaison Committee , which includes representatives from the three departments , and from the Police and the Justices ' Clerks , which meets twice a year under the chairmanship of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 4 | The Assembly ( which meets twice a year ) elects a Council of State ( the collective presidency , whose Chairman , currently Heng Samrin , was head of state ) as its permanent organ from among its members . |
| 5 | It elects from among its own members a reorganized bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet , which meets twice a year for three- or four-month sessions and is responsible for all legislative and administrative matters [ see pp. 36659-60 ] . |
| 6 | There is a National Assembly of 180 members which meets twice a year . |
| 7 | The Assembly ( which meets twice a year ) elects a Council of State as its permanent organ from among its members . |
| 8 | Violations — poaching in another household 's area — is referred to a special council of eunuchs from all over India and Pakistan which meets once a year . |
| 9 | The government described the small war which broke out a year later ( 2–14 July 1977 ) as an unprovoked Egyptian attack . |
| 10 | The network has established a newsletter ( Observations ) which appears twice a year and a database listing the names , addresses and research interests of members . |
| 11 | The campaigners all live within sight of Silverhill Colliery which shut down a year ago . |
| 12 | ‘ I also did a world tour with Mike Oldfield which lasted over a year . |
| 13 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 14 | You are a very different man from the frightened little scribe who arrived here a year ago . ’ |
| 15 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
| 16 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |
| 17 | She had spent thousands of pounds refurbishing the pub which she took over a year ago . |
| 18 | The arms were granted to the princess on her marriage to Prince Leopold of the Belgians and are especially rare because she died just a year later in childbirth . |
| 19 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 20 | These have been bequeathed by Mrs Justin Thannhauser , who died exactly a year ago . |
| 21 | She left without a murmur although she had only a year and a half to go to complete her secondary education . |
| 22 | Hello , we must be going : What can you say about a year that began with the end of Maggie and ended with the demise of Gorby ? |
| 23 | What do we do once a year ? |
| 24 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 25 | When we set Headline up we spent nearly a year before publishing our first full list putting in place the systems that would allow the company to expand . |
| 26 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 27 | Erm we quote once a year for it really er Shane this is one that |
| 28 | It might , but if say we said over a year , and we said there 're a total number of fifteen members of staff , |
| 29 | They meet once a year , you know , to a kind of get together for |
| 30 | Given their backward character and the fact that they appeared scarcely a year after George Hepplewhite 's death , the traditional suggestion that Alice , his widow , was capitalizing on his designs seems plausible . |