Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 3 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 4 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 5 | It had 300 residential places ( and had had those for only a year ) . |
| 6 | It can thus invest on the assumption that the contract will not last for merely a year . |
| 7 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 8 | But it quickly closed , after only a year . |
| 9 | Goulding is set to link up with his hometown club after only a year at Leeds after his £90,000 move from Wigan . |
| 10 | But even then the only player of note Cardiff themselves lost was Mark Ring , and he returned from Pontypool after just a year . |
| 11 | After nearly a year , when they were further buffeted by a major recession which affected the entire country , Bernard wanted to close down and cut their losses ; but with a ten-year lease on the shop there seemed little point even in doing that . |
| 12 | Vogts has recalled 32-year-old Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder , Uwe Bein , who played in the 1990 World Cup , into his squad after nearly a year out of the reckoning . |
| 13 | Wood cutting boards will survive for a period but tend to crack after about a year of continuous washing . |
| 14 | He was glad to be transferred to the Army Education Corps after about a year , to discourse , with the rank of sergeant , to soldiers on topics such as ‘ why Turkey will remain neutral ’ , ‘ why Japan has entered the war ’ and so on . |
| 15 | After about a year , and with a paid-up membership of about fifteen men and five women , we decided that we would try to organize our own disco at the town hall Assembly Rooms . |
| 16 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has thrown in the towel on its facsimile software for Unix unit Samsung Software America and dissolved the operation after about a year . |
| 17 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 18 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 19 | So after about a year , eighteen month , I could see by his dictates that we were n't going to have worker 's control in the real sense of the word . |
| 20 | In her presence , after almost a year , and in a foreign country at that , I felt I had finally come home . |
| 21 | French attempts to relieve the pressure failed , and on 4 August 1347 , after almost a year of blockade by both land and sea , Calais fell to Edward III . |
| 22 | In May 1949 , after almost a year of crisis , Stalin conceded defeat and reopened land access to the city . |
| 23 | After over a year on the specialised endocrine ward here at Coronation Hospital , she was well aware of Deana 's deserved reputation as a malicious gossip , and knew that her heated denial would only pique the older girl 's interest . |
| 24 | AFTER barely a year in the job , Peter Ueberroth — famous for giving Los Angeles a profitable Olympic Games in 1984 — has resigned from the Rebuild Los Angeles ( RLA ) commission . |
| 25 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 26 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 27 | It is also important to note the time gap of nearly a year between the murder and the letter to Katkov . |
| 28 | There followed an awful period of nearly a year when she was unemployed , searching the back pages of the Times Higher Education Supplement in vain every week for lectureships in nineteenth-century English Literature . |
| 29 | My music then had an unfortunate break of nearly a year when I was eight years old ; we moved house . |
| 30 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |