Example sentences of "[vb past] be a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 2 | In what she acknowledged was a difficult year for the Scottish party , Mrs McGuire admitted the party had yet to fully come to terms with the election defeat last April . |
| 3 | Time was now important to him : it had been a lazy year and , as he had told Levy , there was still work for him to do . |
| 4 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 5 | That I did had been a 45 year fantasy come true . ’ |
| 6 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 7 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It had been a hard year , the public felt Lauda had been ill done by , and everyone felt that they were seeing the apotheosis of one of the great drivers and the first signs of greatness in his natural successor , Alain Prost . |
| 12 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 13 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 14 | It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone . |
| 15 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 16 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 17 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 18 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |