Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’ |
| 2 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 3 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 4 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 5 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 6 | 1889 was a better one still ; as a matter of fact in that year we reached , perhaps , the zenith of our power . |