Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] year " in BNC.

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1 The three-year period , for example , between the death of Eorpwald and the accession of Sigeberht , could signify that Sigeberht succeeded in the third year after Eorpwald 's assassination .
2 " James Stavanger died in the last year of the war .
3 Bohunt volunteered for the first year , which started last autumn .
4 The first British H-bomb test had been carried out in May that year and seven further tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific followed in the next year .
5 Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum .
6 In the first year , right , there was not enough rain , right , in order to swell the tubers , right , presumably the same thing happened in the second year , but no , the reason why er , yields were very low in nineteen seventy four , was because there was too much rain .
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