Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 2 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 3 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 4 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 5 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |