Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I was a year behind you . " |
| 2 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 3 | ‘ I first saw Lily when she was fourteen , and I was a year older , soon after my breakdown . |
| 4 | I went out to help look for my Uncle Joe before I was a year old , ’ she said , proudly . |
| 5 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 6 | She was a year old and her mother had wanted her to be fostered while she got herself sorted out . |
| 7 | But perhaps she was a year or two older than that or even more . |
| 8 | Ruth hugged her arms tightly , remembering she was a year older than Adam . |
| 9 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |
| 10 | Her name was Linda , and she was a year younger than Tony . |
| 11 | The other four nights she stayed at home , studying , since she was a student at the same Polytechnic that was educating Sarah Fleming and Sergeant Jones 's son , but she knew neither of them as she was a year older and taking different subjects . |
| 12 | She was abandoned by her mother when she was a year old , and her father gave her for adoption . ’ |
| 13 | Experts say we 're knocking back ONE MILLION pints of beer a day LESS than we were a year ago . |
| 14 | ‘ We regard it as a very satisfactory half year , bearing in mind that the world 's economies are not quite as clear cut as they were a year ago . |
| 15 | ‘ We regard it as a very satisfactory half year , bearing in mind that the world 's economies are not quite as clear cut as they were a year ago . |
| 16 | If some factories are now producing fewer feet-breaking shoes and unusable machines than they were a year ago , so much the better . |
| 17 | MORE than four out of five Britons feel they are financially worse off than they were a year ago . |
| 18 | They were a year in the planning and a year in the building , and carry all generators , control systems , prizes and a generous helping of Guinness to slake visitors ' thirsts after their visit . |
| 19 | Save for the opening of a further station , at Islip on the Oxford-Bicester Town line , it was a year of consolidation and planning . |
| 20 | It was a year and ten days after bailing out over Berlin ! |
| 21 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 22 | However , it was a year of drought , and at the stud all the mares were given daily feeds of oats and hay to keep them in good condition ; but Minyip , due to long habit , refused to eat anything but the poorest hay . |
| 23 | It was a year of truly great films including ‘ David Copperfield ’ with W.C. Fields , ‘ Anna Karenina ’ with Greta Garbo , and ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ starring Charles Laughton , all providing real competition for Shakespeare . |
| 24 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 25 | It was a year now since she had seen him , and he was more handsome than ever . |
| 26 | In Scotland , the big drop occurred in 1988 , when the poll tax registers started to be compiled ; in England and Wales , it was a year later , when their registers came in — persuasive evidence that the poll tax was the key . |
| 27 | IT was a year that claimed the lives of two of Britain 's greatest comedians , a film femme-fatale and the father of the Princess of Wales . |
| 28 | It was a year during which Joan came near to forgetting her humble origins — the fact that she was the orphaned daughter of a washerwoman . |
| 29 | Rufus , yes , and Shiva sometimes and Shiva with Vivien , but it was a year since Zosie had come into his sleep and materialized before him . |
| 30 | It was a year in which the emphasis of my life changed . |