Sentence examples for literally a year from inspiring English sources

WIFE: I'm just thinking about the porch you've been promising to stain for literally a year now.

And it felt like literally a year later people were saying: "They think you're too old for that".

However, many are painfully difficult – I've seen a preparator take literally a year over a single fist-sized specimen in order to reveal every piece of available information undamaged and ready for scientific study.

May 16 2015 In 2006, while activists were fighting the city's restrictive 1926 Cabaret Law in court, the arts administrator Greg Miller was organizing a nonprofit, Dance Parade, Inc, that would take the issue to the streets, literally: a year later, at its first event, thousands of fleet-footed folks twirled through Manhattan, from 31st Street and Broadway to Washington Square Park.

"So they would acquire companies literally a year or two before they became profitable," he says.

"We had no idea what we were doing at the time, and that was literally a year after we met". Their mishap, however, was not fatal.

There they watched horror movies "literally for a year".

The actual campaign to run for that job would take so long, you'd have to literally dedicate a year and a half of your life to that".

In it, Mackey, Amazon executive Jeff Wilke and other Whole Foods executives shared how quickly the deal came together, hinted the company could launch another brand, and said the deal was "kind of a dream come true". Mackey meant that literally: "About a year and a half ago, I dreamed that we merged with Amazon.

He went on to outdo himself a few years later with The Year of Living Biblically, in which he followed every law of the Bible literally for a year (which, among other things, resulted in a beard that would put any Bushwick hipster to shame).

"We think it literally took a year just to find it, because we had no idea what a video synthesizer was, and they are pretty rare," say Konpyuta.