Example sentences of "been a [adj] year for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters .
2 Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’
3 It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too .
4 1951 had been a good year for Minton .
5 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 ’ .
6 It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain .
7 In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money .
8 1993 has so far been a good year for Hewlett-Packard Russia .
9 THIS has been a momentous year for CCG in London , with a number of important new contracts and expanded services with existing clients .
10 It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone .
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