Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] a year " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 ] .
3 Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 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 ] .
7 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 .
8 Altogether Russell had served almost a year in remand and been found Not Guilty on both of his charges .
9 Preparations had started almost a year earlier , but it was not until winter 1916/17 that they were fully implemented .
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