Example sentences of "a year [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 2 | We race 12 months a year but I wanted a change as I was feeling a bit stale . |
| 3 | ‘ It may take well over a year but I would hope to make a 95pc recovery . |
| 4 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 5 | More in a year than I could earn from four novels . |
| 6 | It is now over a year since I last saw you and believe me Elsie it seems like an awful lot more time than that . |
| 7 | I 've been doing roughly three a year since I started writing and that 's twenty-five years . |
| 8 | I have managed to apply it at least once a year since I 've been on the Bench . |
| 9 | ‘ We were saying , ’ said Charles , ‘ that it must be over a year since I last saw Esther . |
| 10 | It is now well over a year since I sent you Offensive from Quasar 13 . |
| 11 | The Minister may recall that it is almost a year since I first raised in the House the matter of the proposed incinerator in Renfrew . |
| 12 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 13 | ‘ I never earned more than $3000 a year before I was thirty-one . |
| 14 | ‘ Going out to America saved me a lot of time — an English surgeon had told me it would be a year before I kicked a ball again but I was back playing within six months . ’ |
| 15 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 16 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 17 | Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant . |
| 18 | It seemed a year before I got him out of there . |
| 19 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 20 | It was about a year before I retired , a wet , windy day in early November . |
| 21 | I could never go longer than a year before I sabotaged everything I built up . ’ |
| 22 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 23 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 24 | A year after I arrived in Fontanellato I did so and won a scholarship which paid half my school fees . |
| 25 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll maybe write ten songs a year if I 'm lucky . |
| 27 | ‘ Nick , ’ he said at last , ‘ my son is going to die within a year if I do n't do something very drastic . |
| 28 | ‘ I paint about 30 pictures a year and I usually have about four on the go at once . |
| 29 | ‘ Make it a year and I 'll agree . ’ |
| 30 | I was once in a ward with nine other people for a year and I know how , except when passed away , I know how that can really get on one another 's nerves and erm the individual needs that they will have I know will be erm so difficult if there are too many living in very closeness . |