Sentence examples for used a year from inspiring English sources

The magnificent Olympic stadium showcased during the 2008 Beijing Games, known as the Bird's Nest, was seldom being used a year and a half later.

Oil sands need to be washed and more than 12,713m cubic feet (360 million cubic metres) are used a year - the equivalent used in a city of 2 million people.

Skeptics point out that last year only about 30 million gallons of biodiesel were commercially produced in the United States; by comparison, 6.7 billion gallons of heating oil are used a year.

After his college of choice passed him over, after he used a year in junior college as a springboard to the University of Miami, after he scored a touchdown in the Rose Bowl and became a top prospect at tight end, the Giants seized him in the first round of the N.F.L. draft, expecting he could be an important part of their offense.

A similar Jim system had been used a year or so earlier to carry a person down to fourteen hundred and forty feet off the coast of Spain, but in that operation the diver had been lowered and raised by a cable.

GoalControl will be used at this year's Confederations Cup in Brazil and will be used a year later, provided the performance reaches the requirements.

The officer who was dismissed last week apparently used a year-old, unclassified military map to try to pinpoint the arms agency's location.

To improve area-based SES estimates, we used a year-dependent census tract SES composite index 18 linked to SEER cases by the census tracts of residence at time of diagnosis.

I think using a year as a the benchmark for these things is silly.

Use a year inside parenthesis.

For years companies had used a 4-year average of the 30-year Treasury bond yield as their discount rate.