Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 2 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 3 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 4 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 5 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 6 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 7 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 8 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 9 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 10 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 11 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 12 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 13 | You have n't owned it for over a year . |
| 14 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 15 | I mean when I moved I had stuff in here before the upstairs was used , I had it for about a year or so , before I opened it up . |
| 16 | if it 's here it 's not much point leaving it for once a year . |