Example sentences of "but [vb past] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pointed out that committee members were unrepresentative of the user body but got re-elected year after year . |
| 2 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 3 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 4 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 5 | Bahrain 's first constituent assembly was elected in 1973 but dissolved two years later [ see pp. 26340 ; 27364 ] . |
| 6 | He was just forty-five but looked twenty years older . |
| 7 | ‘ I thoroughly enjoyed it but felt five years older after the experience . ’ |
| 8 | A tiny Leith Marine Stokers ' Union was formed in July 1893 but disappeared three years later " on grounds of scarcity of members " . |
| 9 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 10 | He was appointed surgeon dentist to the Royal Public dispensary ( 1857 ) , but resigned two years later to establish an institution devoted to dental treatment , the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary , which opened in 1860 . |
| 11 | In his City of London speech traditionally delivered at the Mansion House , but staged this year in the Guildhall , because of refurbishment of the usual venue the Chancellor endorsed Norman Lamont 's plans to raise £10bn over the next two years by slapping VAT on home fuel bills and raising National Insurance contributions . |
| 12 | In his City of London speech traditionally delivered at the Mansion House , but staged this year in the Guildhall , because of refurbishment of the usual venue the Chancellor endorsed Norman Lamont 's plans to raise £10bn over the next two years by slapping VAT on home fuel bills and raising National Insurance contributions . |