Example sentences of "[det] year [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean Curtis , TSB Head of Marketing , states : ‘ We had entered into negotiations with Mark McCormack 's IMG company in February of this year and a couple of months later everything was finalised . |
| 2 | Apple expects to sell its one millionth PowerBook portable computer sometime this year and a PowerBook model with an electronic stylus is set for later this year . |
| 3 | Three children have died on Cheshire 's roads so far this year and a total of almost 400 injured . |
| 4 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 5 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
| 6 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 7 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 8 | A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more . |
| 9 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |