Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 2 | Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 . |
| 3 | It has been a good year to be at Stirling . |
| 4 | Aside from her gold medal triumph at the Barcelona Olympics , Capriati said it has been a disappointing year on the court and gave herself a ‘ C ’ grade for her results . |
| 5 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 6 | He admitted : ‘ It has been a shocking year for me . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been a difficult year because I have n't been able to get into the side . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But it has been a wonderful year and a wonderful time for me . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been a tough year all round but we have managed to complete a number of objectives and it is important that all employees continue to appreciate the value of environmental and health and safety issues . ’ |
| 10 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 11 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |
| 12 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 13 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 14 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
| 15 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 16 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 17 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 18 | It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone . |
| 19 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 20 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been a good year , ’ he nodded . |
| 22 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 23 | It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's been a difficult year , ’ admits Sir David Nicholas wearily as he contemplates how best to manage 40 staff in the Gulf . |
| 25 | But on the home front , too , it 's been a busy year . |
| 26 | It 's been a peculiar year , a sad year , we have lost some loyal members , Mr Williams , and John Norton Grimshaw . |
| 27 | it 's been a bad year . |
| 28 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |