Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 2 | As well as being a year of further expansion , 1991/92 was also a year of consolidation . |
| 3 | 1912 was also a year in which Havelock Wilson implemented a fateful decision by his union not to support a repetition of the strategy of a national stoppage which had served him and the transport unions so well twelve months earlier . |
| 4 | But 1939 was not a year to be starting any scholarly project . |
| 5 | For anyone interested in history , 1989 was clearly a year to match 1789 or 1914 in the momentous import of events in Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | That was about a year before he commit suicide . |