Sentence examples for a year to reply from inspiring English sources

Departments are also criticised for taking up to a year to reply to committee reports.

I have been writing to Thomson about this for over a year now and, when it bothers to reply, it merely repeats its explanation.

"I'd like to net about what I do now–$300,000 a year," he replied nonchalantly.

"I had dinner with him maybe once a year," he replied.

"Not if you win the one race a year," he replied.

"I once quit for a year," he replied, stamping out the butt.

A year? "Easily," he replies.

Asked if his approach to this World Cup had changed as a consequence of England's failure in South Africa, the 67-year-old on £6.7m a year replied; "I haven't changed things, it is Fifa that have changed things.

"What," she asked, "have you been doing for a year?" "Perpetrating," Mr. Taylor replied, his eyes downcast.

When I spoke to the novelist Will Self several years ago, I told him that I thought he would be remembered in a hundred years, to which he replied that nobody will be around in a hundred years' time.

Not that anything has come of his plea; it has languished for a year without reply.