Example sentences of "at a [adj] year [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git .
2 Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor .
3 Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure .
4 In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party .
5 Mr Johnson gave the two girls up to six allergy tablets , after a row with his wife at a New Year 's party .
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