Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | a week and he has n't phoned me once a year |
| 2 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 3 | ‘ We take them once a year to a council rubbish dump . |
| 4 | Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year . |
| 5 | Diana and Mary are both married , and we visit them once a year . |
| 6 | Er and that 'll last you about a year . |
| 7 | Well as I say , I 'm going to put it in the big one once a year . |
| 8 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 10 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 11 | The fund of goodwill , of love even , which she had brought with her just a year ago , must be almost exhausted . |
| 12 | No , my , my aunt was in York , we used to see her once a year , Christmas , she used to come |
| 13 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 14 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 15 | In March 1990 they gave her about a year to live . |
| 16 | Bit embarrassing , really , she 's supposed to be on probation but her probation officer sort of lost her about a year ago . ’ |
| 17 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |
| 18 | Just a minute … ’ and finally , ‘ Well , I expect we 'll see you when you 've the time , ’ as if she only visited them twice a year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He did it once a year , on Boxing Day . |
| 21 | " You know , she has a similar set-up in Rome and also in Paris , a little creche where she can go and queen it once a year . |
| 22 | How did they collect it once a year ? |
| 23 | Twies to visit it once a year , at the vewy least . |
| 24 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 25 | We do n't do it once a year — we do it all year round — wherever the town councillors or the Abbot will pay us to put on a show . ’ |
| 26 | They only do it once a year on the flat . |
| 27 | We 'd only see it once a year if it stayed where it was . |
| 28 | I saw it about a year and a half ago . |
| 29 | Motorola Inc says it 'll have 40MHz 68040 parts shipping by the third quarter , 50MHz versions in the fourth , going to 0.5 micron technology : its next-generation part , Q , or the 68060 ( UX No 380 ) , will deliver 100 MIPS performance by the end of next year , it says — that must put it around a year behind Intel Corp , who 's 100 MIPS P5 , or 80586 iteration is due at the end of this year . |
| 30 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |