Example sentences of "just over a year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But there are some very good reasons why dBase is the dominant DOS database , why it has outlasted many superficially more attractive competitors , and why Borland was so eager to acquire dBase 's developer , Ashton Tate , just over a year ago . |
| 32 | To the astonishment of some , the nursery — opened just over a year ago — has been most popular option . |
| 33 | And all that was just over a year ago . |
| 34 | But just over a year ago , I was grossly obese ’ |
| 35 | Rachaela recalled Miss Barrett , just over a year ago , the scrubbed dean face and essential glasses . |
| 36 | ‘ I think she may have worked here just over a year ago . ’ |
| 37 | The recycling scheme is run by the non-profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company which was set up by a group of plastic cup manufacturers and a number of companies in the UK vending and foodservice industries just over a year ago . |
| 38 | ‘ They moved out just over a year ago , ’ she admitted flatly . |
| 39 | The Scottish Teacher-Research Support Network was set up just over a year ago to support teachers who want to undertake research in their own schools , colleges or classrooms . |
| 40 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
| 41 | Just over a year ago , I told the House that child benefit is , and will remain , a strong element in our policies for family support . |
| 42 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 43 | ‘ It 's dated July 15th — just over a year ago — and he writes : ‘ Today father told me something about himself which I can scarcely believe . |
| 44 | Er well just over a year ago . |
| 45 | Because , with the death of her father just over a year ago , and with her only other living relative , her cousin Liz , living so far away in America , both she and Julie — who also had no close family of her own — were able to provide company for each other . |
| 46 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 47 | When John Taylor was selected as Cheltenham 's Tory candidate just over a year ago , the local Conservative party had to fight hard to heal divisions within its own association , about his appointment . |
| 48 | The third major pileup on this motorway section since it opened just over a year ago . |
| 49 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 50 | Two young constables who joined the force just over a year ago expressed concern at a plan to judge police performance on the number of arrests . |
| 51 | The attack happened on the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford which just over a year ago was the scene of major public disturbances . |
| 52 | ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’ |
| 53 | Just over a year ago everyone got a bit of a scare when an opinion poll showed that one third of the French agreed with the extremist ideas supported by Mr Le Pen — priority for the French ( as opposed to immigrants ) in jobs , housing , and family benefits ; the abolition of all income tax and its replacement with higher rates of VAT ; the reintroduction of the death penalty for murderers and drug traffickers ; and the expulsion of the immigrant long-term unemployed ; the banning of tourist visas for Arabs and Africans ( to stop illegal immigration ) , and so on . |
| 54 | Mark Kershaw , who started as general manager at Ayr just over a year ago with the task of halting the track 's headlong hurtle towards debts of £1 million , described the rescue package as ‘ an enormous boost , not only for Ayr racecourse , but Scottish racing ’ . |
| 55 | It was just over a year ago that British Coal announced the closure of thirty one of Britain 's deep mines . |
| 56 | The Company has also gained 14 accreditations to BS 5750 [ just over a year ago they had one ] plus an approval under Ford 's QA standard . |
| 57 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 58 | Just over a year ago , over a thousand biologists gathered at an international meeting in Vancouver . |
| 59 | If you recall , there was an explosion at Lucy 's erm just over a year ago , last March , erm when there was an explosion in their Air-Filtration plant . |
| 60 | Christine 's been married to Doc D for just over a year now . |