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Example sentences for "year and"

  • I've been here for a year and I've been so happy.

  • You won't be ready to try the Entrance for a year and a half yet.

  • If he gets the scholarship, a year and a half hence, he will stay on two years free of expense.

  • It excited her extremely; and as a year and a half seemed an immense period of time to her imagination, the dread of losing him was not so immediate as to damp her enthusiasm.

  • And so they were: Clement had indeed been at home in September, but Alda not for a year and three-quarters, nor Edgar since he first left it three years before.

  • Out there we have made acquaintance with Mr. Dion Leith, who had the terrible misfortune to kill his little boy nearly a year and a half ago.

  • A year and a month old, or a little over.

  • They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young men take their first steps on life's road, each saw immense changes in the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken those first steps.

  • Count Ilya Rostov died that same year and, as always happens, after the father's death the family group broke up.

  • His last cry, ere the flames stifled his voice, was an awful summons to Pope Clement to meet him before the tribunal of Heaven within forty days; to King Philippe to appear there in a year and a day.

  • At this juncture a young lady, enthusiastic in romance, bethought her of making her hand the reward of any knight who would hold out the Perilous Castle for a year and a day.

  • Provision has been made for lighting 4,000 miles more during the current fiscal year and equipping an equal mileage with radio facilities.

  • Active work in canal construction, mainly preparatory, has been in progress for less than a year and a half.

  • But that war lasted only a year and a half, and increasing signs of disunity began to appear during the final months of the conflict.

  • The duality in self-torture of these spiritual brethren endured in all about a year and a half, and closed with Speed's marriage.

  • From this time forward, the Jacobins were never able to count on him, not even when they rebuilt the Vindictive Coalition a year and a half later.

  • Nearly a year and a half went by before he affiliated himself with the new party.

  • Out of eleven comrades that they were, and had been without a break for a year and a half, there were three men only with Corporal Marchal.

  • He has lost interest in women--all those he has seen for a year and a half were not for him; and moreover, even when they would like to be his, he is equally uninterested.

  • So that they still frequent it, even after a year and a half of actual war in all its forms.

  • On both sides of it are crouching armies, and their missiles have mingled on it for a year and a half.

  • Here's a man unknown, proved to have been in the habit of taking opium in large quantities for a year and a half, found dead of too much opium.

  • Runaway two-seater; and the salary is five hundred a year and a good commission and very generous expenses.

  • It will keep him away for a year and he's going to travel--oh!

  • I've been without a husband for a year and I've found it wonderfully restful.

  • Only a year and a half," he replied quickly, plunging into a side issue.

  • Make me a hermit for a year and I could see things in the large I believe, and ignore the trifles which obscure real vision.

  • For a year and a half I have been bombarding Congress with a demand for a bill that would make a campaign, through the schools, against illiteracy.

  • I deal here only with big questions and not with details--with policies that affect many, and yet I have but a year and a half more, and then what?

  • Then it suddenly dawned upon them that they were talking to the man who had been their close companion for a year and a half.

  • Egremont quitted his country, never to return to it again; and returned to it after a year and a-half's absence, a much wiser man.

  • A year and a half of imprisonment had shaken to its centre a frame born for action, and shrinking at all times from the resources of sedentary life.

  • Thus a year and a day slipped by, and at the end of it Gorla of the Flocks and his wife seemed suddenly to have grown old.

  • Let them be to windward, or to leeward, or under the four brown boundaries of the sea, we will find them before a year and a day goes by, and will carry them back to Grianaig.

  • At length Ardan the eldest spoke and said: 'It is now a year and a day since our sister was taken from us, and we have waited in grief and patience for her to return.

  • I told him the church ought to pay fifteen hundred a year and a parsonage, and I presumed it would.

  • It was unreasonable to expect that Maurice Mapleson would come for less than we had offered Mr. Uncannon-$1,500 a year and a parsonage.

  • My good master, Captain Minner, sent me to Providence, in Rhode Island, to stay a year and a day, in order to gain my residence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hands clasped; less frequently; painted glass; proceeding from; public house; small value; sound asleep; wide sense; year ago; year agone; year and; year before; year course; year ending; year hence; year later; year terms; yearly income; years after; years afterward; years afterwards; years gone; years later; years male; years old; years since