Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aldus Europe has spent nearly a year , and a not inconsiderable amount of money , setting up a multilingual production facility to create all the European language editions of their products . |
| 2 | — Graham Robb , Tory candidate for hartlepool , said a three-year-old girl whose father claims she has waited over a year for surgery is to get her operation . |
| 3 | She is a bit upset that she has had to wait almost a year before receiving any income . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So we 're in ninety three ninety four we 've got about a year and a bit before we actually have to start really doing something |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Altogether Russell had served almost a year in remand and been found Not Guilty on both of his charges . |
| 15 | I do n't want to think I 've wasted almost a year of my working life on an abort . |
| 16 | ‘ I think after you 've worked about a year in the job you find that you start off by seeing pollutions . |
| 17 | Preparations had started almost a year earlier , but it was not until winter 1916/17 that they were fully implemented . |
| 18 | A week later I transferred an Emperor Peckoltia ( which I have had over a year ) and added a new Emperor Peckoltia which was purchased from Wholesale Tropicals of Bethnal Green . |
| 19 | XYZ Foods have spent over a year researching and developing the product and they are convinced that it will answer a real need in the market . |