Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was over a year before Charlotte was allowed to take her charge , a little boy called Edward , home with her to meet her family on her day off . |
| 2 | It was over a year since the war had started and , in that time , it had encroached even on remote Cramer . |
| 3 | It was over a year ago but it seemed even longer . |
| 4 | It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair . |
| 5 | But it was over a year before the enormous propaganda potential of such a formation dawned upon the reluctant French authorities . |
| 6 | It was over a year ago about the gravel . |
| 7 | Well that 's what Lucy said , that it wouldnae lasted too long , I mean , it was over a year . |
| 8 | It was nearly a year ago , before the Heseltine challenge , says the college 's Principal , Dr John Beynon , that the Prince of Wales 's advisers approached King 's with proposals for a jointly funded study of the potential of Somerset House . |
| 9 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 10 | so so it was nearly a year before we actually got away |
| 11 | It was also the year in which the train robbers were sentenced and France and England agreed to the principle of a Channel Tunnel . |
| 12 | It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school . |
| 13 | It was also the year of the first presidential election held under universal suffrage . |
| 14 | But it was also the year that the class structure of the underground , under pressure from a voracious music industry , ensured that a sizeable enclosure was partitioned off , in front of the stage , for the great and expensively attired of the new aristocracy . |
| 15 | It was just a year ago today she brought him , was n't it ? " |
| 16 | It was quite a year for the affable and unassuming Sean Blaney , who within months had led his native Armagh to their one and only All Ireland minor success . |
| 17 | It was now a year later . |
| 18 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 19 | It was almost a year before Farr 's was rebuilt and my father worked at his forge in the open air right through the winter . |
| 20 | It was almost a year since he had been there and in that time nothing had been done , nothing had been touched . |
| 21 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |
| 22 | It was about a year before I retired , a wet , windy day in early November . |
| 23 | But erm as far as financial incentive goes , erm it was about a year or so after erm I started there I think when er they introduced it , the erm war bonus , which was a supplement to normal salaries |
| 24 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 25 | I know they were not complacent about the Swiss because it was only a year earlier that they had been forced to come back from being two down to snatch a vital European point against them . |
| 26 | Sacha reveals : ‘ It was only a year ago that I found somebody to teach me how to sing . |
| 27 | Indeed , it was only a year after the formula was introduced that the first suspension took place ( on 13 November 1973 , when MLR was raised from 11 ¼%; to 13% ) . |
| 28 | It was only the year before that the first aeroplane had flown the English Channel . |