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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [adj] year " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I mean the sixteen years , what , what time ?
2	I found the early years far harder to cope with than the teens and others often agree with me .
3	I forget the actual year .
4	‘ The longest day I can remember at Needham smithy was the day of the Stowmarket Christmas sale — I forget the exact year .
5	I played the whole year with Peter and we won the British Open .
6	Have a lovely Christmas , and I hope the New Year will be very happy for you both .
7	As I assume the first year warranty will soon be over , I suggest you have the problem investigated .
8	‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son .
9	erm when I went the first year I looked at them .
10	Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's
11	Erm so I did the two year C C Q S W course .
12	As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts .
13	When my own daughter was born I was a single parent , and had to work to pay the bills , so I missed the best years of her childhood .
14	Do you have a quarter of the right you would expect if you done the forty years .
15	Do you remember the first year when we went and everybody went and put notice in front ?
16	‘ Is that the one you spent the New Year with ? ’
17	Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while
18	Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a .
19	Then you do the three years
20	But you can resit any what you fail the following year .
21	You can recreate an electric guitar accurately enough , down to fractions of a millimetre if you want to , but can you recreate the thirty years of wear and tear that 's the main attraction of a knackered old Strat ?
22	You had the last year .
23	She left the following year having exhausted all the tuition the school could offer .
24	On 1 January 1987 you conducted the New Year 's Day Concert in Vienna .
25	Bryony , returning after breaking her leg , came third , the same position she held the previous year just before her accident .
26	Anderson 's heart was not in these changes , and she retired the same year .
27	Koch provides the former , but in only one instance , Weber 's Freischütz Overture , are we told the actual year it was issued .
28	However , as we begin the fourth year of low rainfall ( an understatement in my area ) and severe watering restrictions , these brunneras are no longer ideal for my garden .
29	As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’
30	If we start the New Year in the same way as we finished it , I 'll be well pleased .