Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 2 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | The Swiss underestimated the Scots mentality when we played there a year ago . |
| 4 | The treasury at Winchester was the permanent repository ; this was coming to be controlled by the Exchequer , the audit department , to which the sheriffs and other officers came twice a year to deliver the royal taxes and to make an account of their stewardship . |
| 5 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 6 | I owe him much in this regard and shall always be grateful for the interest and encouragement he gave to me on his visits to our school , in particular the visit he paid only a year ago when he addressed my staff and helped them all by his understanding and the depth of his practical knowledge and experience . |
| 7 | When he arrived home a year later it was too late . |
| 8 | You are a very different man from the frightened little scribe who arrived here a year ago . ’ |
| 9 | Fidelity Controlled Risk UK Fund will have an estimated gross yield annually of 5% , paid twice a year . |
| 10 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 11 | When we set Headline up we spent nearly a year before publishing our first full list putting in place the systems that would allow the company to expand . |
| 12 | Chapman and Rockwell spent nearly a year in the trenches , Rockwell receiving a bad thigh wound in May 1915 . |
| 13 | In the elections that followed about a year later in 1979 the Awlad Amira ( who had ousted the Mannaia from office in 1976 ) lost control of thirteen of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 14 | Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings . |
| 15 | Yes she had her aunt was a widow there at the time when she came to and she just lived about a year . |
| 16 | The whole thing started about a year before , when I was seventeen . |
| 17 | Church council treasurer John King said the parish had been unable to fly its St George cross since the lanyard broke about a year ago . |
| 18 | Father Devlin called twice a year to collect the Easter and Christmas dues . |
| 19 | The storm clouds gathering over Leeds City broke almost a year after the end of the First World War . |
| 20 | The arms were granted to the princess on her marriage to Prince Leopold of the Belgians and are especially rare because she died just a year later in childbirth . |
| 21 | The rebuild took just a year , the aircraft having previously suffered an accident at Clacton in January 1986 . |
| 22 | These have been bequeathed by Mrs Justin Thannhauser , who died exactly a year ago . |
| 23 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 24 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 25 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 26 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 27 | Her greatest fan — her husband — died almost a year ago and the work has helped her cope . |
| 28 | It took almost a year before the German supreme court judged that membership of the EDC was legal under the country 's constitution . |
| 29 | He went there a year before the war , and is doing well I believe . ’ |
| 30 | All this took barely a year ( and around £500 of plants ) to establish mainly , says Hainge , because he grew only plants which suited their soil and conditions . |