Example sentences of "at [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 2 | WARSAW ( Reuter ) — The Polish Finance Minister , Leszek Balcerowicz , offered Poles a harsh dose of economic austerity yesterday , but said no relief from soaring prices and food queues could be expected for at least a year . |
| 3 | Mr Les Aspin , the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , warned that US military police units might be forced to stay in Panama for at least a year to help keep the peace . |
| 4 | It is made from fermented soya beans and the whole process of producing the sauce should take at least a year . |
| 5 | Dried mushrooms keep for at least a year and 75g/3oz is equivalent to 450g/1lb of fresh ones . |
| 6 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 7 | Mr Graham White , of the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust , said : ‘ It will take at least a year or 18 months of continuous rain to bring this river back to what it once was , and persuade the swans to stay . ’ |
| 8 | With the 12 countries already in the toils of a budget renegotiation , it would mean a delay of at least a year before the ambitious plans for monetary and political union could be relaunched . |
| 9 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 10 | From the Mexican border to Oregon there is enough to see and do to occupy a full-time tourist for at least a year . |
| 11 | Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 . |
| 12 | Driving licences and permits — All drivers must be at least 21 years of age ( 23 in Greece ) and must produce a valid national driving licence , held for at least a year , when taking delivery of the car . |
| 13 | The polarity of the crystal is preserved for at least a year and , in theory , as long as 10 years after power to the cell is switched off . |
| 14 | The vernacular of any way of life can only be absorbed ‘ through the skin ’ by immersing oneself in its people ; and to this end you would be foolish not to spend at least a year ( preferably two ) working on mixed farms in the district in which you hope to settle , making friends and winning the respect of the countrymen who will be your neighbours . |
| 15 | You will feel clumsy and inept at most of the manual skills for at least a year , ; confidence and speed will only begin to appear the second or third time round . |
| 16 | The drought has already set one project , a national food reserve , back by at least a year . |
| 17 | He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year . |
| 18 | The scheme has another advantage , in that it is a very cost-effective way of brightening the place up , especially as each design has a ‘ tube life ’ of at least a year . |
| 19 | Jean Collona also slunk through the Seventies and underlined a look that will for at least a year separate the old from the young . |
| 20 | He is staying here for at least a year to make a television series with Roger Moore . ’ |
| 21 | At the very least , he is hoping for a stay of execution to keep the project rolling — and jobs safe — for at least a year . |
| 22 | In fact , the young goat will remain beside its mother for at least a year . |
| 23 | Even so , original estimates that the plans would cost $150 million have already risen by 20 per cent and the finishing time been put back at least a year until 1996 . |
| 24 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 25 | Even if the researcher completes the writing within , say , a year , publishers need at least a year to publish the book . |
| 26 | No product is expected for at least a year . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 28 | NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures . |
| 29 | The data dictionary — being developed using SNI 's Entity Relationship Model ( UX No 409 ) — will form the basis of a planned Informix repository which is at least a year out and does n't have a target interface environment yet . |
| 30 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |