Example sentences of "but a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a year after that home-made PWL mini movie , featuring her hits , ‘ The Locomotion ’ , ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ , ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ , and ‘ Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi ’ , for her devotees to play in their homes , Kylie was really considering a major career move if everything went wrong . |
| 2 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 3 | The spruce decline was even faster : in autumn 1981 , 94 per cent were still ‘ healthy ’ but a year later this had dropped to 6 per cent . |
| 4 | In the 1978 student elections at Birzeit the Islamic bloc won only 3 per cent of the vote but a year later , inspired by Khomeini 's victory , it won 43 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ We put £130,000 of our own money into the business , ’ Charles says , ‘ but a year ago the bank 's attitude changed . |
| 6 | Even then , Valerie opted for living together first — but a year later I received an invitation to their wedding . |
| 7 | Richard Charkin is blunt about the difficulty Waterstones faces : ‘ Under the rules of the NBA you can discount after a year , but a year 's a hell of a long time to tie up dead stock . ’ |
| 8 | Early after the press conference Fleischmann and Pons advertised the explosion of their palladium block as prima facie evidence for fusion , but a year later Martin Fleischmann presented it to me in a more detached way . |
| 9 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the latest issue of RISC Management claims that ‘ the multi-threaded SMP capabilities that are the core of Solaris 2.0 will not appear until the fourth calendar quarter — in time for the first multi-processor Sparcstation shipments , but a year behind schedule . ’ |
| 11 | The Scots were defeated , but a year later King Stephen could achieve a peace treaty only by ceding the earldom of Northumberland to David 's son Henry . |
| 12 | Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Gonzalez finished second and third in the 1951 World Championship but a year later Ascari won the title as Ferrari team-mates Farina ( Ita ) , Taruffi ( Ita ) and Fischer ( Swi ) occupied second , third and fourth places . |
| 13 | ‘ But a year is a year , surely ? ’ |
| 14 | ( Bantam , who have bought Nigel Lawson 's memoirs-in-progress , could face a similar problem : great book the day he walked out of the Cabinet , but a year from now ? ) |
| 15 | ‘ Chiggers are not supposed to be able to breed on human protein , but a year after the itching began again on my ankles , though not as bad as before . ’ |
| 16 | Does he realise that it is not just an hour but a year and a half late ? |
| 17 | ‘ What happened next I do not know , ’ said the servant , ‘ but a year later she came to our house here and threw herself into the mistress 's arms and begged her to take her in . |
| 18 | The ideas were originally put forward in the boom years of the late 1980s , but a year ago the consortium behind the development collapsed . |
| 19 | But a year ago the roof was declared unsafe and now the Church has been closed while repairs are carried out . |
| 20 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
| 21 | But a year later he had his second stroke . |