Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen horses were competing that year for a first prize in the Derby of £6450 . |
| 2 | Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring . |
| 3 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 4 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | In Ciudad Sandino , a small ‘ new town ’ close to Managua , they were celebrating ten years of literacy work ( 1979–89 ) with an exhibition . |
| 6 | They joined doctors and parents who were celebrating ten years of research into Rhesus disease.Nick Clark reports . |
| 7 | Were going next year , we hope to with Maurice , do n't he , he wants to go do n't he ? |
| 8 | Never mind , also , they were wearing last year 's all yellow kit . |
| 9 | ‘ The 5% increase in house prices which we were expecting this year would have solved most of our problems , including the brunt of the arrears and repossessions , ’ it says . |
| 10 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 11 | It is clear enough what was happening : a girl was paid more than a boy on entering the trade and continued to earn more until both were approaching 20 years old , when the male rate drew ahead and suddenly leapfrogged to become double that of the female rate . |
| 12 | The President himself remarked : ‘ I think if Barbara Bush were running this year she 'd be elected , but it 's too late . ’ |
| 13 | This was the same youngsters that were playing two years ago . |
| 14 | we were discussing last year . |
| 15 | Almost certainly most of it went to Rye , the chief centre of shipbuilding , where , as well as at Playden , ropemakers were working some years later . |
| 16 | What was encouraging this year was that the overall calibre of entries far-outstripped last year 's submissions . |
| 17 | When they realised that our combined ages was nudging 150 years , one wag said that if he reached our age he would settle for soloing over a stile ! |
| 18 | COLBERT : Carroll was storming last year . |
| 19 | The living was cheap and easy , the Bearnais were grateful , there was hunting all year round . |
| 20 | Ceausescu was serving 16 years for " manslaughter " . |
| 21 | He later admitted he had provided an affidavit for Clarke , who escaped from the Maze prison where he was serving 18 years for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 22 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 23 | Police warned against approaching Richard Sean Hyland , 26 , from Kentish Town , London , who was serving four years for armed robbery . |
| 24 | Frederick Greaves , 29 , of Pickering Square , Pennywell , Sunderland , was serving three years and three months for burglary . |
| 25 | Nick Moore first wrote to me from Ashwell prison , Leics , in January , where he was serving seven years — for building society robberies in Derby . |
| 26 | I was improving each year — my 10.03 seconds in Budapest had shown that . |
| 27 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 28 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 29 | LAST WEEK 'S Parliamentary debate on the funding of science took place on the day the Science and Engineering Research Council announced it was cutting next year 's budget by £28 million . |
| 30 | Than what we had we was doing last year . |