Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened in Germany about a year ago . |
| 2 | More damning evidence came from Polly , who said she had seen her mother in Cardiff about a year previously with three children , and a day later had seen her without any . |
| 3 | For someone who is only moderately active , that could mean a 7- or 8 lb ( 3- or 3.5-kg ) increase in weight over a year . |
| 4 | It may lead us to compare the relative increase in costs over a year , believing that we were comparing like with like . |
| 5 | This group of people was recognised by the meeting in Tokyo over a year ago , and this is an issue that many people — both my friends and strangers that I come across in collecting or canvassing for Amnesty — ask me about . |
| 6 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 7 | Long afterwards , in fact only a year or so before his death , at a party after the London premiere of his ballet Poème de l'Extase , John sat up until about four in the morning , in a mood of black melancholy , talking to his friend Peter Rosenwald about the misery of a homosexual life . |