Example sentences of "been a [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters .
2 Kenneth thought it had been a great year .
3 1991 has been a marvellous year for Good Housekeeping and it 's largely thanks to you .
4 Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’
5 Predictably , the survey showed 1992 to have been a flat year for the UK 's information technology businesses .
6 Comedians Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith went for huge belly laughs as they poked fun at ‘ a small group of people for whom this has been a terrible year — the British tabloid journalists ’ .
7 YOU do n't have to be the Queen to feel that 1992 has been a rotten year .
8 But despite what appears to have been a rotten year for everyone , books were still written , films made , and people could still summon up the energy and enthusiasm for sex .
9 In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money .
10 Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 .
11 IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis .
12 1993 has so far been a good year for Hewlett-Packard Russia .
13 1951 had been a good year for Minton .
14 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 ’ .
15 ‘ It 's been a good year , ’ he nodded .
16 It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too .
17 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 .
18 Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 .
19 William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway
20 It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain .
21 ‘ That 's because it 's not been a good year , due to fluctuating temperatures . ’
22 This latest news on the job front adds to what has already been a good year for the town . ’
23 It has been a good year to be at Stirling .
24 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 .
25 In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun .
26 Aside from her gold medal triumph at the Barcelona Olympics , Capriati said it has been a disappointing year on the court and gave herself a ‘ C ’ grade for her results .
27 THIS has been a momentous year for CCG in London , with a number of important new contracts and expanded services with existing clients .
28 Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side .
29 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 .
30 It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone .
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