Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 2 | He was knighted in 1965 for his work on the Forth road bridge , which had been opened the previous year . |
| 3 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 4 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 5 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 6 | On the other hand , two large specimens of Pinus halepensis , the Aleppo pine , had escaped because , he imagined , they had been transplanted the previous year making no shoots that summer , thus faring better than other plants with tender new growth . |
| 7 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |