Example sentences of "it [was/were] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save for the opening of a further station , at Islip on the Oxford-Bicester Town line , it was a year of consolidation and planning . |
| 2 | It was a year and ten days after bailing out over Berlin ! |
| 3 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 4 | However , it was a year of drought , and at the stud all the mares were given daily feeds of oats and hay to keep them in good condition ; but Minyip , due to long habit , refused to eat anything but the poorest hay . |
| 5 | It was a year of truly great films including ‘ David Copperfield ’ with W.C. Fields , ‘ Anna Karenina ’ with Greta Garbo , and ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ starring Charles Laughton , all providing real competition for Shakespeare . |
| 6 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 7 | It was a year now since she had seen him , and he was more handsome than ever . |
| 8 | In Scotland , the big drop occurred in 1988 , when the poll tax registers started to be compiled ; in England and Wales , it was a year later , when their registers came in — persuasive evidence that the poll tax was the key . |
| 9 | IT was a year that claimed the lives of two of Britain 's greatest comedians , a film femme-fatale and the father of the Princess of Wales . |
| 10 | It was a year during which Joan came near to forgetting her humble origins — the fact that she was the orphaned daughter of a washerwoman . |
| 11 | Rufus , yes , and Shiva sometimes and Shiva with Vivien , but it was a year since Zosie had come into his sleep and materialized before him . |
| 12 | It was a year in which the emphasis of my life changed . |
| 13 | ‘ It will require a huge effort and a great deal of concentration , but the attitude of the players is so different now to what it was a year ago , it is not out of the question . ’ |
| 14 | She said it was a year to the day since her son died . |
| 15 | If they make the money they get paid , but if there is a downturn in the market or their performance is not as strong as it was a year ago , then their salary will be reduced accordingly . |
| 16 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 17 | Now , with the price of tea nineteen times what it was a year before , the villagers said they drink it just once a day . |
| 18 | It was a year or more since they had met , but he ran out of the shop and clung to her elbow . |
| 19 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 20 | But it 's not all doom and gloom — the number of vacancies is higher than it was a year ago . ’ |
| 21 | It was a year since her wedding , and on that bright cold morning her unspoken hope was to win over her husband 's family and so persuade him back to her . |
| 22 | The shop , now double the size it was a year ago , was ‘ very healthily up ’ , and could now take advantage of the last minute frenzy by being able to accommodate more people inside . |
| 23 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 24 | Unemployment is rising in every European country except Spain , where it is nearly twice as high as it is here , and in every European Free Trade Association country , and in every G7 country it is higher than it was a year ago . |
| 25 | The rate of applications for student loans this year is almost double what it was a year ago , recruitment to higher education is soaring and student numbers have increased by 10 per cent . |
| 26 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 27 | In fact , unemployment is rising in every member state of the European Community except Spain — where it is already nearly double our level — and in every member country of the European Free Trade Association , and it is higher today than it was a year ago in every G7 country . |
| 28 | In every EFTA and G7 country , unemployment is higher than it was a year ago . |
| 29 | It was a year of pure magic . ’ |
| 30 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |