Example sentences of "[adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much a year , to the nearest thousand , did he earn as Heritage Secretary ? |
| 2 | It struck him then how long a year it had been . |
| 3 | If this sort of thing can happen to him , especially a year after Mr Dalglish gave in to the pressure , then everyone is vulnerable . |
| 4 | It can thus invest on the assumption that the contract will not last for merely a year . |
| 5 | The child was perhaps a year old and was engaged in beating his — or it might have been her — mother about the shoulders with tiny chubby fists . |
| 6 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 7 | It would take months , perhaps a year , for such strength to seep away . |
| 8 | D'Arcy guessed he was Chantal 's age , perhaps a year or two older . |
| 9 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 10 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 11 | Although the Museum 's buildings were insured , it will be months , perhaps a year before they might be replaced . |
| 12 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 13 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 14 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 15 | The company has only two attractive businesses now , the AS/400 at $14,000m or so a year , and the RS/6000 , at barely $2,000m — which means that in the rankings above , the truly viable computer businesses of IBM lie between Hewlett-Packard and DEC . |
| 16 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 17 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 18 | They were step-brothers , Sir Henry and our Mr Merrivale , with only a year or two 's difference in their ages . ’ |
| 19 | InterCity turned in its first profit in 1988–9 , only a year after transitional support was withdrawn . |
| 20 | HAVING disposed of their pubs and disco estate in Scotland to Scottish & Newcastle Breweries , Stakis are now looking to sell off the 14-strong Firkin pub chain bought from European Leisure only a year ago . |
| 21 | Only a year earlier he had performed his last hat-trick . |
| 22 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 23 | Any cuts would be on top of production line redundancies and would come only a year after GM finished cutbacks which slashed its white-collar staff by 40,000 to 140,000 worldwide . |
| 24 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 25 | Costain is also expected to take a pick-axe to its dividend , only a year after its £77 million rights issue . |
| 26 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 27 | Long afterwards , in fact only a year or so before his death , at a party after the London premiere of his ballet Poème de l'Extase , John sat up until about four in the morning , in a mood of black melancholy , talking to his friend Peter Rosenwald about the misery of a homosexual life . |
| 28 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 29 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 30 | But it quickly closed , after only a year . |