Example sentences of "one year " in BNC.

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1 Hamadi Jebali : a 51-year-old newspaper editor from Sousse , he was sentenced by the military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991 to one year 's imprisonment for publishing an article calling for the abolition of military courts .
2 The 25th Anniversary campaign had dramatic results : individual membership increased from 25,000 at the end of 1985 to 35,000 at the end of 1986 : a full 30 per cent increase in one year .
3 The only possible general comment is limited to a comparison of one year with another , or of one exhibition with some comparable one .
4 A limited number of schools offer post-graduate courses which are scheduled over one year .
5 Rosaline chides Berowne , and taxes him with certain conditions he must fulfil if he is to gain her hand ( the Princess and her ladies have responded to the death of the King of France by postponing any further romance for one year ) .
6 His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable .
7 Contraceptive precautions should be continued until a woman has a period or any bleeding for two years if ages 45–50 , and for one year if over 50 .
8 Besides , dental treatment is free during your pregnancy and until your baby is one year old , so take advantage of this !
9 One year nearer the big four O. ’
10 ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats .
11 He had returned from a sojourn in New York to aid his oppressed people in the Spanish civil war , in which he lost his life just over one year after Leonard was born .
12 One year older than Leonard , he went through the varying experiences of adolescence with him , sharing not least Leonard 's musical interest ( Morton played both the banjo and the trombone ) , as well as a variety of pastimes and a healthy interest in the fairer sex .
13 It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress .
14 I/We enclose remittance for individual/joint membership for one year :
15 The most common cause of death in dogs under one year of age in the UK is ‘ elective euthanasia ’ , the active decision by owners to put their dogs to sleep .
16 ‘ We have about 200 in training in any one year . ’
17 Postings to specialist courses are made by the Personnel Management Centre , for which recruits can apply to be nominated after one year in the service .
18 CB originated in the ruins of France one year after the end of the Second World War as Union Financiere d'Enterprises Francaises et Etrangeres .
19 They would take policy reports to conference in one year , have party consultation and debate during the year , with voting and amendments in the subsequent year .
20 The Social Democrat party , banned by the Nazis in 1933 , returned to life for only one year after the war in what was then the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany .
21 The fund had acted as a conduit for the money from ivory trade associations in Japan for one year , but this was stopped by Mr Lapointe , Mr Bohlen said , because he wanted the money to go directly to the secretariat .
22 Before the polys uncork the champagne , it should be added that it is always dangerous to infer a trend from one year 's figures .
23 One year , we were given an increase of 40p a week on our state pension .
24 The statistics provided by Opal show 25 dollar-based funds over one year which outperformed those in the table .
25 Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage .
26 Naturally , if he can borrow he borrows ; but that is a lark that has n't been ‘ on ’ in this country , taking one year with another , for the last ten years or more .
27 Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year .
28 It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year .
29 Beaverbrook noted in November that no conference with the USA would be possible until after the presidential election one year later .
30 While the north of Cameroun has been badly affected , its key productive areas lie in the high rainfall zones of the western highlands ; in Kenya the old colonial rule-of-thumb that one year in five will be a year of drought has been sustained , and lean years have been followed by bumper crops .
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