Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 2 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 3 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But whoever pays the bill , most of us still regularly visit the hairdresser , whether it 's once a week or once a year and as each town seems to have at least 20 salons , this is an entirely random list . |
| 8 | A Gothic castle on the edge of the cold waters , on treeless cliffs where boats founder , where villages vanish ghostlily in shifting sands , and a reef where once a year appear the ragged bodies of all ever wrecked thereon — it begets legend . |
| 9 | There is a corner of a frozen field in Scotland … where once a year you 'll find some of the toughest … some of the hardest … some of the wackiest racers in sport … |
| 10 | The rate is used to calculate the tax charge on beneficial loans to directors and employees earning £8,500 or more a year , including gross expense payments and the value of benefits in kind . |
| 11 | For those earning £21,000 or more a year , nearly £300 a year extra . |
| 12 | For those earning £21,000 or more a year , that would mean nearly £300 a year extra . |
| 13 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 14 | Savings , the agency thinks , could be $100m or more a year . |
| 15 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 16 | These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful . |
| 17 | And with inflation increasing at 20 per cent or more a year it is ridiculous that all tax levies and exemptions are not indexed to the purchasing power of the £ so that inflation itself does not become the most grievous tax-gatherer of all . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 19 | A final instalment could be paid when the candidate starts work , or even a year later , if that candidate has stayed with the firm and/or performed well . |
| 20 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 21 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 22 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 23 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |
| 24 | Another 17-year-old girl kept up a regular correspondence with her natural mother and went to see her once or twice a year referring to her as an ‘ auntie ’ . |
| 25 | I thought , as most people probably think once or twice a year , that I should never be the same person again . |
| 26 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 27 | Retest foods once or twice a year to see if they are still a problem . |
| 28 | Going over the limit in the privacy of your own home just once or twice a year probably wo n't do any lasting damage . |
| 29 | They only meet during residential Circle functions , i. e. once or twice a year . |
| 30 | Once or twice a year there would be a village concert in the schoolroom , with recitations and songs by villagers . |