Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 9 | The fund of goodwill , of love even , which she had brought with her just a year ago , must be almost exhausted . |
| 10 | No , my , my aunt was in York , we used to see her once a year , Christmas , she used to come |
| 11 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 12 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 13 | In March 1990 they gave her about a year to live . |
| 14 | Bit embarrassing , really , she 's supposed to be on probation but her probation officer sort of lost her about a year ago . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | He did it once a year , on Boxing Day . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | How did they collect it once a year ? |
| 21 | Twies to visit it once a year , at the vewy least . |
| 22 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | They only do it once a year on the flat . |
| 25 | We 'd only see it once a year if it stayed where it was . |
| 26 | I saw it about a year and a half ago . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 29 | It would be more interesting to see it over a year . ’ |
| 30 | Well we 've had it over a year , it 's probably had its natural life . |