Example sentences of "in [art] [num ord] year [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the first year we were frightened of him , in the second year we got used to him , and in the third year we really liked him . ’ |
| 2 | He 's cost us , cost us a million pounds in the first year he was a councillor . |
| 3 | In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the last years she was one of the few people to visit her in her room . |