Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
2 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
3 | ‘ I still enjoy going to racing at Croft circuit but I think this year 's trip to the Isle of Man will be my swan song , ’ he said . |
4 | He says Henley does change but very gradually … it 's been difficult to introduce women 's racing , but we have this year and there 's a very high standard here … up to Olympic standard |
5 | But they divorced five years later . |
6 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
7 | Jack Stone was two years younger than her , but he looked ten years older . |
8 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
9 | but it took five years |
10 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
11 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |