Example sentences of "be a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas these booklets for instance are certainly retained because they 're a two year thing . |
| 2 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 3 | you 're a third year student trying to do projects , it 's |
| 4 | I am a second year diploma in social work student at Bournemouth University and am collecting information on service user evaluation of day services for people with learning difficulties . |
| 5 | I am a second year DipSW student looking at the needs of older people with learning disabilities . |
| 6 | I am a second year DipSW student and would be grateful for any information or research on foster carers birth children regarding placement disruption . |
| 7 | I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters , and great photos . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I am a 21 year old female medical student hoping for a career in health promotion . |
| 10 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 11 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 12 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 13 | 1991 has been a marvellous year for Good Housekeeping and it 's largely thanks to you . |
| 14 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 15 | Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses . |
| 16 | Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ . |
| 17 | YOU do n't have to be the Queen to feel that 1992 has been a rotten year . |
| 18 | But despite what appears to have been a rotten year for everyone , books were still written , films made , and people could still summon up the energy and enthusiasm for sex . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 21 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |
| 22 | 1993 has so far been a good year for Hewlett-Packard Russia . |
| 23 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been a good year , ’ he nodded . |
| 26 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain . |