Example sentences of "[adv] the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professionally the years had been good to him , though it was a great disappointment to Maud that he had specialized in diseases of the mind . |
| 2 | From then on the year was regarded by the Romans as beginning on that day . |
| 3 | Write down the year and month in which the products with the following date stamps were produced : |
| 4 | Whether , at the tender age of nineteen , he will be able to withstand the gruelling concert tour he has won remains to be seen ; Radu Lupu , who won the competition in 1966 , accepted the trophy but turned down the year of free promotion and international débuts . |
| 5 | The Berlin Wall came down the year before , but John Major is not Prime Minister yet and EuroDisney is still a building site . |
| 6 | The second point is : Most of us down the years have tried to pray , and have found a pattern that suits us . |
| 7 | Where the information is available , it shows that each modern nation is descended from a wide diversity of peoples , leaving aside all those who have joined or left down the years . |
| 8 | ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years . |
| 9 | And if I had to choose a companion to be with me down the years I would take you as a pattern . ’ |
| 10 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 11 | I believe that Frank is too autocratic , too opinionated — especially about relay selections , which have been the main bone of contention between us down the years . |
| 12 | All down the years . |
| 13 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 14 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 15 | Climbing grades can often conceal the true character of a route , as Dave Cook has discovered down the years |
| 16 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 17 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 18 | He had a sudden vision of families in endless reproduction — Willmots and Stannards and the rest replicating themselves down the years , perfecting their most infamous capacities . |
| 19 | But now it was everywhere , clamouring at her , shouting down the years of her virginal marriage . |
| 20 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Irish rugby is something special and down the years we 've proved we 're always capable of producing something like this . ’ |
| 22 | And so on down the years the litany of excitement and drama has continued . |
| 23 | I turned , like you do in a nightmare , and down the years the vision of terror I glimpsed still springs fresh in my mind . |
| 24 | ‘ You surely do n't see it continuing down the years ? ’ |
| 25 | Laura Davies , Sue Strudwick , Trish Johnson and Nicholas yesterday all spoke as one on the subject of how , but for the support they had had from certain European sponsors down the years , they would all be thinking in terms of pulling out of playing in Europe altogether . |
| 26 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 27 | Perhaps the year in which the Byrd discography reaches its centenary should also be the year in which the record-collector , no less than subscribers to The Byrd Edition , can proudly survey a well-filled shelf and say , ‘ This is the full measure of William Byrd . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps the year ahead 's gon na be a lot easier for us . |
| 29 | ‘ Next year will be hard work -but perhaps the year after that I 'll get the chance to break away to a Greek isle and do a Shirley Valentine … ‘ |
| 30 | This they took for ‘ all animals except swine , and swine all the year round in the hay of Plumpton , and during the fence month … in the rest of the forest ’ |