Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 2 | Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old , but it can be matured for over a year . |
| 3 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 4 | In the largest public protest seen for over a year , an estimated 10,000 demonstrators marched through central Abidjan on May 31 chanting demands for the resignation of President Felix Houphouët-Boigny . |
| 5 | ( Barzani said on May 24 that the legislative and executive councils of the Kurdistan autonomous region created under legislation of 1974 had not operated for over a year . |
| 6 | The legislation was postponed for nearly a year . |
| 7 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |
| 8 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 9 | Bertrand Gachot had not raced for over a year , but his relative inexperience did not show as he began to attack Suzuki 's Lola in the race 's later stages . |
| 10 | The number of British cot deaths halved in just a year after the advice . |
| 11 | All have spent at least a year abroad in France or Germany , usually as assistants . |
| 12 | Some asylum seekers have been detained for over a year . |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |
| 14 | He said , nearly 40pc ( 518 ) of young people on the dole in Darlington had not had a job for over half a year and one sixth ( 217 ) had not worked for over a year . |
| 15 | ‘ I had n't worked for about a year and a half , and I was about to compromise — to take a part in a stupid comedy . |
| 16 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 17 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |
| 18 | Determined to break down chauvinism and confront the prejudice and suspicion of the unknown , the organizations also diminished the economic barrier to foreign travel by establishing the novel concept of the now standard , fixed price ‘ all-in ’ holiday which presented a defined objective to be budgeted for over a year . |
| 19 | Nor was there an explanation as to why the letter , which was dated 10 June 1965 , had waited for over a year and a half before being revealed . |
| 20 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 21 | he said you are by the number of payments you is n't paid he said you have n't paid for almost a year but he said you have n't money . |
| 22 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 23 | It is significant that , in 1969 , gains on Government stocks were exempted from TCG if held for over a year because the government 's managers of the market in those stocks found the tax to be an unacceptable clog on that market . |
| 24 | The figure has more than doubled in just a year . |
| 25 | Comparing the situation in 1975 with the year of introduction ( generally prewar ) , on average the ratio of benefits to earnings had risen slightly , the duration of benefits had doubled to nearly a year , the delay before eligibility to benefit had halved ( to two days ) , and the period of disqualification ( on account of dismissal for misconduct , for example ) had halved to about three weeks . |