Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students who do well in the three years of the MA(General) may choose to proceed for a further year to obtain the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 2 | The game against the Belgians affords Rangers the opportunity to go through a complete year without losing at home in any competition . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough Council is hoping at qualify for a further year 's Government grant to finance champion coaching sessions for young sportspeople . |
| 4 | Keith Atkinson 's case against a health authority was dismissed after a six year legal battle . |
| 5 | If the haemoglobin remains normal after a year it should then be checked after a further year or sooner if the patient becomes symptomatic . |
| 6 | Although the Guaranteed Capital Bond is designed for a five year term , early encashment is allowed before the end of the fixed term . |
| 7 | What the hell does one buy for a two year old ? |
| 8 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 9 | There are 2 local lads this year ; Edward Haddon from Charlbury started rowing as a 9 year old at school in Oxford then the boat race was just a dream . |
| 10 | The Institute itself has recently reopened after a five year refurbishment which included the installation of a new metal and glass roof and the conversion of the former tapestry gallery into one suitable for displaying pictures . |
| 11 | Singapore 's Raffles Hotel reopened after a three year face-lift costing £55 million . |
| 12 | I wish I knew more about wine , but it looks like a good year . " |
| 13 | My head is banging like a twenty year old car engine . ’ |
| 14 | In ordinary cases the notice must be a six months ’ notice , ending with a completed year , but in the case of agricultural tenancies the Agricultural Holdings Act 1923 requires a full year 's notice . |
| 15 | Now we did go through dramatic exercises in the nineteen sixties , erm where we entered into a three year agreement er on wages settlement at national level . |
| 16 | Intraperitoneal ivalon mimicking peitoneal malignancy after plugged percutaneous liver biopsy is reported in a 20 year old woman with a history of nausea and abdominal disterision . |
| 17 | Under the more inefficient system of the late nineteenth century , it was not unusual for over 2,000 cases to be reported in a single year . |
| 18 | The efficacy of the alcohol project and the non-punitive paradigm is demonstrated by the results reported from a three year evaluation study covering 152 offenders . |
| 19 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 20 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 21 | The British Museum 's show was originally scheduled to coincide with the publication of its new catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his School , due to appear in a few year 's time . |
| 22 | In 1973 Tarasia and Mishra reported on a 10 year old boy who caught a fish in a pond and attempted to kill it by biting ; unfortunately the fish slipped inside his mouth . |
| 23 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 24 | The Chairman , Mr A. T. Woods , reported on a successful year with 115 members and the conference at Oxford . |
| 25 | Their project was preceded by a two year pilot study , also funded by Northern Regional Health Authority , from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 26 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
| 27 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 28 | The change has been adopted as a prior year adjustment , so pre-tax profits for 1991/92 are £4.3m lower and for 1990/91 , on a restated basis , £3.8m lower . |
| 29 | How much would you pay for that , if that were you , if you were thirty , looking for a thirty year plan , guaranteed to keep in line with inflation , thousand pounds a month . |
| 30 | It is looking for a 60 year franchise that could be terminated by the Government at 10 year intervals . |