Example sentences of "year but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over half of lone mothers have only one dependent child , two-fifths have a youngest child of under school age , the average age of the women is 32 years but a fifth ( mainly single women ) are aged under 25 . |
| 2 | Lewis Luther was about nineteen in age years but a lot older in street-time . |
| 3 | According to Amersham finance director Bill Ellaby , the purchase of Medi-Physics , which has already started to reorganise its business to eliminate losses before completion of the deal , will have a neutral effect on earnings per share at Amersham this year but a positive effect in 1990/1 . |
| 4 | As John Major when Chancellor told the British Chambers of Commerce at the end of 1989 , we were set for ‘ a difficult year but a promising decade ’ . |
| 5 | In Timisoara on Dec. 16 , the first anniversary of the uprising in the city which led to Ceausescu 's downfall [ see pp. 37104-05 ] , there was a demonstration by 5,000-8,000 people , including students and workers , at which Fr Laszlo Tokes , the ethnic Hungarian priest whose arrest had sparked off the events of 1989 , called for a " second revolution , not like last year but a peaceful , Christian one " . |