Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 1962 was to be my big year ; Pop had me weight training three times a week , my statistics were now 40-24-36 and I was in the final of the Mecca ‘ Miss England ’ Contest .
2 ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player .
3 He said Scarborough fully intend to get promoted next season in what will be their sixth year as a Football League club .
4 A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year .
5 Whatever the age group we 're working with ( be it five year olds or fifty year olds ) the basic elements of drama remain the same :
6 Clinton behaved as if his first year at Oxford would be his only year .
7 He has indicated that this may be his last year on the tour , and he finishes a five-time Davis Cup winner .
8 Cyril himself , heading for a personal century , is considering a declaration , unsure if 1992 will be his last year .
9 IF YOU are looking for a late summer break at a holiday park in Britain then this could be your lucky year .
10 sort of , but neither of them are taking it on are they next year ?
11 The first tenants were his sixty year old servant William Barthram , who was ailing and lame , and William Ramshaw , who was old and blind .
12 Annie Lennox 's Why because she is such a great talent , and ( as it 's my last year ) Iron Maiden with Be Quick Or Be Dead .
13 She said well I 'd like to go because it 's my last year and her her teacher said to her well I 'm sorry she said but no I 'm not happy with you taking time off .
14 Erm , it 's their last year at the primary school so it would nice to leave a couple of benches or something like that behind , for the old'uns to sit on .
15 He 's usually teaching chemistry but it 's his first year of teaching maths
16 This is his second year at Leeds , and he has made several appearances in the Reserves .
17 This is his second year at Leeds .
18 COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour .
19 Is it two year ?
20 What is it this year , darling ?
21 taped the wonderful programmes that are B B C two last er , no is it this year , Spring ?
22 it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost
23 Is it three year now ?
24 And there 's a field there , and there 's nothing , a couple of ponies in it and a caravan and when one of those died is it last year , or the year before there was one of the biggest funerals ever seen !
25 It sounded good Mick , I mean it 's your first year and I was n't gon na come up here , but I thought I might as well start as I mean to go on .
26 How 's your first year going then cos you 've nearly finished it now ?
27 This is our seventh year sailing from the wide bay of Bitez .
28 This is our twelfth year arranging highly successful Dinghy Sailing Holidays in the sun .
29 I watched him go round and , as it was my first year in the sport , I thought — so this is what FI is like , eh ?
30 It was their ninth year together , and they had been top of the bill at the Palladium in the West End six years running .
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