Example sentences of "was [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was perhaps a year old and was engaged in beating his — or it might have been her — mother about the shoulders with tiny chubby fists . |
| 2 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 3 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 4 | Despite this deprivation , and despite the fact that the difference in their age was only a year , he survived the early and mid-1930s much better than did MacDonald . |
| 5 | He was only a year older , but sort of fatherly . |
| 6 | Even though there was only a year between the two boys , Charlie looked on Terry as his little brother . |
| 7 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Our son was only a year old and I was still feeling pretty asexual . |
| 9 | It was in excellent condition , was only a year old and cost me £85 . |
| 10 | I know they were not complacent about the Swiss because it was only a year earlier that they had been forced to come back from being two down to snatch a vital European point against them . |
| 11 | There was only a year 's difference in our ages . |
| 12 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 13 | Royal dock-yard workers considered themselves lucky if their pay was only a year in arrears . |
| 14 | Indeed , it was only a year after the formula was introduced that the first suspension took place ( on 13 November 1973 , when MLR was raised from 11 ¼%; to 13% ) . |
| 15 | The car was only a year old . |
| 16 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 17 | It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place . |
| 18 | It was just a year ago today she brought him , was n't it ? " |
| 19 | Mm , they used to have like big dances and thin in the Grand Hall of all places , but music was once a year , things like that but they do n't have that now . |
| 20 | This new position was achieved only as a result of continuous warfare ; there was hardly a year in the third century that did not see the Roman army engaged in some campaign . |
| 21 | For anyone interested in history , 1989 was clearly a year to match 1789 or 1914 in the momentous import of events in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | 1912 was also a year in which Havelock Wilson implemented a fateful decision by his union not to support a repetition of the strategy of a national stoppage which had served him and the transport unions so well twelve months earlier . |
| 23 | As well as being a year of further expansion , 1991/92 was also a year of consolidation . |
| 24 | It was nearly a year ago , before the Heseltine challenge , says the college 's Principal , Dr John Beynon , that the Prince of Wales 's advisers approached King 's with proposals for a jointly funded study of the potential of Somerset House . |
| 25 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 26 | The last date was nearly a year ago . |
| 27 | Her prolonged treatment as an in-patient meant that she was nearly a year in Addenbrookes hospital , over a year in Hinchinbrook hospital and a further year at Hunstead Park rehabilitation and medical centre . |
| 28 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 29 | so so it was nearly a year before we actually got away |
| 30 | Mrs. Dolman was well known to Mum through the Mothers ' Union , the only son Roger was a Standard Seven boy and he had four younger sisters including one who was about a year old . |