Example sentences of "for [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 2 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 3 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 4 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 5 | It had 300 residential places ( and had had those for only a year ) . |
| 6 | It can thus invest on the assumption that the contract will not last for merely a year . |
| 7 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 8 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 9 | if it 's here it 's not much point leaving it for once a year . |
| 10 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 11 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 12 | Then Brian Mooney , playing his first senior game for nearly a year , was dispossessed on the edge of the penalty area and Minto gleefully scored the winner . |
| 13 | For nearly a year I have been here alone . |
| 14 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 15 | She struggled with her anger and guilt for nearly a year , and had gradually resolved these feelings . |
| 16 | ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ |
| 17 | They were taken by animal welfare worker Terry Hill , who worked as a technician at Shamrock for nearly a year . |
| 18 | The reasons are pretty self-evident : no band could keep this up for three hours every night for nearly a year without having sold their souls to the rock ‘ n ’ roll devil long ago . |
| 19 | For nearly a year , Sotheby 's and Christie 's engaged in warfare to secure the estate sale . |
| 20 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 21 | A major Cabinet dispute rumbled on for nearly a year . |
| 22 | The legislation was postponed for nearly a year . |
| 23 | A single parent living with her four children on this Sunderland estate had kept a large bedroom window covered with plastic sheeting for nearly a year ; the council had n't fixed it and she did n't have the wherewithal to do it herself . |
| 24 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 25 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 26 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
| 27 | ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum . |
| 28 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 29 | Sharon Turnbull has been training in articles with Newcastle City Council for nearly a year . |
| 30 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |