Example sentences of "a good year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Its Swallow Hotels have had a good year , helped by the first full year 's trading at Peterborough and Waltham Abbey . |
| 4 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |
| 5 | If you do n't win the Boat Race , it might be a good year otherwise but it 's not really a good year . ’ |
| 6 | If you do n't win the Boat Race , it might be a good year otherwise but it 's not really a good year . ’ |
| 7 | Elsewhere , in the industrial and general division , Stockpak , the contract food and blending subsidiary , enjoyed a good year . |
| 8 | For instance , Labour in a good year used to hold a dozen or more seats in rural East Anglia and the northern Home Counties . |
| 9 | The year 1927 was a good year from several viewpoints , although it saw the death of Sir Anker Simmons ( knighted in 1920 ) , one of the Club 's quartet of founders . |
| 10 | We could like to wish you all a happy festive season and a good year in 1991 . |
| 11 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 12 | 1991 was a ‘ bad year on the financials but a good year on the controllables ’ said Sanderson . |
| 13 | The year 1939 was not a good year for building . |
| 14 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 15 | No , 1970 was not a good year for British and Cosmopolitan what with one thing and the other . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a good year this year ’ , said Mr J Spenceley , ‘ one of the best ’ . |
| 17 | Summer 1992 was a good year for casual spawnings , and my smaller pond is home to countless Orfe and goldfish fry . |
| 18 | THE HIGH It never was a good year for the ‘ Roses , maintains Andy Couzens , a guitarist who 's finally found his niche … |
| 19 | Or , as Roberts cheerfully confesses : ‘ We have had a good year . |
| 20 | ‘ At 82 , every year is a good year because it is a bonus — you are not supposed to live after 70 . ’ |
| 21 | In a good year a gathering of twenty pounds would not be at all unusual of the largest and most succulent imaginable . |
| 22 | Not a good year … |
| 23 | The Company is intent on maximising its potential and feels it is now set to further sales from 1991 which with revenue from other sources , point to a good year for the Company as a whole . |
| 24 | 1993 has so far been a good year for Hewlett-Packard Russia . |
| 25 | It also had a good year , particularly in the UK , although overseas outlets saw ‘ excellent growth ’ . |
| 26 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 27 | It is a good year , therefore , at which to take stock of the various proposals and identify a number of common themes . |
| 28 | I wish I knew more about wine , but it looks like a good year . " |
| 29 | They can payout 15 per cent in a good year and nothing the next . |
| 30 | And er but my husband was down here er a good year before we moved down here because there was n't accommodation available for us to move with i him you see ? |