Example sentences of "but in [art] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unsuccessful fishing is a most discouraging event to the dwellers in these remote western isles : hundreds leaving every year for the east coast ; when fortunate , they will be able to bring home with them , after clearing all expenses for board , etc. , more than enough to pay the rent of their crofts ; but in a bad year they may come away in debt to the curer . |
| 2 | Naipaul learns that the only positive reaction is acceptance ; but in a whole year he does n't achieve it . |
| 3 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 4 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 5 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 6 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 7 | But in the past year he has slipped quietly into the background as team manager Micky Stewart and captain Graham Gooch have dominated selection . |
| 8 | But in the same year we now have two opportunities to celebrate : our capital city of culture on one hand , and our Great Rebellion on the other . |
| 9 | But in the last year we 've taken some very bold steps . |
| 10 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |