Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 3 | The fund of goodwill , of love even , which she had brought with her just a year ago , must be almost exhausted . |
| 4 | You 've been with us nearly a year now , and it 's thanks to your work that we 're well on the way to managing the volatility problem at high temperatures . ’ |
| 5 | Mary Estlin 's Bristol and Clifton Ladies ' Anti-Slavery Society also warmed to the changed tone of Broad Street although they had broken from them barely a year earlier . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | perhaps she 's mellowed now , I mean the last time she went on with it , about it , was probably over a year ago , but she 's still going on about it definitely a year ago not just |