Example sentences of "was [adv] for [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 2 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |
| 3 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 4 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 5 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |