Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter . |
| 2 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 4 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 5 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 6 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 7 | Their father , Patrick Hamilton , had died dramatically a year ago , blown up by an IRA car-bomb a few yards from what was then their home in Dublin . |
| 8 | Yesterday , Fairlie confirmed that her disappearance had occurred exactly a year before Joanna 's , and added : ‘ The coincidences between what I did and this affair in England are far too great to dismiss . ’ |
| 9 | Fang and Li had spent over a year sheltering in the United States embassy in Beijing , having sought refuge there in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 36722 ] . |
| 10 | However , since he had served nearly a year in prison whilst awaiting trial he was released on completion of the trial , the sentence being reduced for good conduct . |
| 11 | Altogether Russell had served almost a year in remand and been found Not Guilty on both of his charges . |
| 12 | Preparations had started almost a year earlier , but it was not until winter 1916/17 that they were fully implemented . |