Example sentences of "year [adv] when [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 2 | French museums were alerted to the painting a little over a year ago when its owners contacted them after finding a foreign buyer . |
| 3 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 4 | Can the Prime Minister remember those heady , happy days a year ago when his predecessor was tossed out of office ? |
| 5 | The driver of the same express was killed a year earlier when his locomotive careered into the rear of a stationary train from Basingstoke which had stopped to report a signals fault . |