Sentence examples for left for a year from inspiring English sources

The idea first came to Barnett at university, when she left for a year abroad (she studied Spanish and Italian).

After two years at Harvard, Randolph left for a year to work in a low-paying manual job, as a carpenter's helper, trying to find himself.

"When he first took me to see the building he bought in Greenpoint, it looked like somebody had dropped a bomb and then left for a year," his wife, Gladys Salazar, said.

By the time I've graduated, and left for a year in France, L. and even I myself, the silly heroine, are only tiny figures: the kind that landscape artists use to show scale.

And far from lazily using the audience as a vehicle to get to his next set piece, he took a front-row couple's post-coital engagement before the proposer left for a year in Cyprus – and really went to town with it, embarking on an elaborate and very funny imagining of what may have occurred in the Mediterranean.

She and her husband left for a year's vacation in Europe and then settled in England, where she made occasional speeches on behalf of a variety of causes.

In autumn 1922 he left for a year-long trip to Europe, where he collected and recorded Danish folksongs before a concert tour that took him to Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and England.

He won't leave for a year at least.

In "Yurt", a fellow teacher, Ms Duffy, leaves for a year and returns emanating newfound vigour.

In Japan, a mother can receive paid maternity leave for a year at 40percentt of her salary.

He studied at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Fla., for three years before leaving for a year's study at the Paris Opera Ballet school on a Prix de Lausanne scholarship.