How to use "year" in a sentence

'So? Does your watch tell you the year?' asked the Mad Hatter.

'No,' Alice answered, 'but it's the same year for a very long time.'

I went to an ordinary school for a year

The only other important thing that happened to me at the university was the Big Game at the Orange Bowl in Miami that year

'Forrest,' he said, 'all year we have secretly taught you to catch the ball and run with it

'Well, boys,' he said, 'there's always next year.'

"Just give me that boy in my team for a year!", and they did

And we had a good year - the best year, Forrest! Good luck, boy!'

After a year, we went to Vietnam to fight in the war

And after a year, Mom was working for me, and Mr Tribble, and Curtis (my old football friend), and Bubba's daddy.

At the end of that year, we had thirty thousand dollars!

And at the end of that year we had seventy-five thousand dollars.

For instance, why may not any portion of a new confederacy a year or two hence arbitrarily secede again, precisely as portions of the present Union now claim to secede from it? All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this."

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

London in the year 1888

The late summer and autumn had the heaviest rain of the year.

Polly Nichols was not the first 'Unfortunate' who was murdered that year, so Scotland Yard chiefs sent their most experienced officer to investigate

An example is Montague John Druitt, a 31-year-old lawyer, teacher, and enthusiastic sportsman

But he had only arrived in England the year before, so how could he know the area as well as the Ripper? And is it possible that Jack the Ripper changed from savagely killing prostitutes to poisoning barmaids?

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

He survived the Battle of Waterloo but unfortunately, in the same year, his wife died

For almost a year, Marius saw the old man and the young girl daily in the same place at the same time

There was, however, still a trace of beauty in the sixteen-year-old lace, like pale sunlight beneath the thick clouds of a winter's dawn

That evening, Cosette was alone in the house which Jean Valjean had bought about a year earlier

It's a long time ago, but do you remember the day when you first looked at me - in the Luxembourg Gardens? And the day you walked past me? Those things happened nearly a year ago

During that month of May in the year 1832, Cosette and Marius met every day in the wild garden of that small, secret house

The wedding was arranged for February the following year

We think she's his third victim this year."

Tall, arrogant, dressed in his expensive suit and with a watch that costs more than most people make in a year.

For almost a year now

And he remembers something horrible from more than a year ago: an accident on the roads across the moors

He was hit by a car last year while he cycled across Brow Top road

Every year we take a cruise on old Mary

This is the sixth year

Every year" Greg said, "hundreds of tourists come here, right? Most of them are rich, and some of them are very rich

"There's a family who comes here, maybe three or four times a year

"We saw it last year," Junior says

"At this time of year, we want to look for rabbits, Son, but if we can get a hare, even better."

Now, not many people come to this side of the forest at this time of the year, but if you see someone you just put the gun down gently in a bush or under some leaves

He never sees people up here at this time of year

It is 2088, thirty years since the end of the ten-year Oil Wars.

It was March 15, and she had been going out with Cham for exactly one year

She could say with her hand on her heart that this year - her eighteenth - had been the best so far

It was crazy the way it did that, even after a whole year together.

One year ago, on March 15, 2087, she'd been standing in Space 29 in one of her favorite illusions

She was maybe a year or two older than Sala and Cham

"You know we've been together a year today? Well, he bought us a pod experience

Back inside the apartment, Sala found her nine-year-old brother Apat playing games on the ultranet in his room.

You're interested in the two-year program

He looks ill, doesn't he? His wife died suddenly last year

Something happened a year ago that changed my whole life

It was the best time of year, before the heat of summer

I have been looking after the house for the past year

'Mrs de Winter has been dead for over a year.'

We were all very worried about him last year

We walked on last year's leaves

'Will your husband hold the Manderley Fancy Dress Ball this year? I remember the last one so well

Then he said, 'The Manderley Ball was held every year

Are you having a Fancy Dress Ball at Manderley this year?'

They all said that Maxim had married his young, second wife within a year of Rebecca's death

The flowers would come every year, the birds would sing

The year is 1935

But Danny had been dead more than a year.

Unaware that she was staring at him, the boy put one hand to his mouth and bit gently on his bent thumb knuckle, which Danny had begun to do a year or so before he died

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

She had lost her child and her husband in the same year, the man first, and then the boy, the son to the grave and the husband to the winds of change

The Lido was one of those incredibly lavish productions that could be seen nowhere in the world but Vegas, for it was only in Las Vegas that a multimillion-dollar show could be staged year after year with little concern for profit; such vast sums were spent on the elaborate sets and costumes, and on the enormous cast and crew, that the hotel was usually happy if the production merely broke even from ticket and drink sales

Almost a year ago, shortly after Danny had died, Tina had been offered a directing and co-producing job on a huge ten-million-dollar extravaganza to be staged in the two-thousand-seat main showroom of the Golden Pyramid, one of the largest and plushest hotels on the Strip

This year had passed in a blur of twelve- and fourteen-hour days, with no vacations and rarely a weekend off.

A little more than a year before he had died, Danny had begun sleeping at the opposite end of the small house from the master bedroom, in what had once been the den

Although the funeral had been more than a year ago, she had not yet been able to dispose of Danny's belongings

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

Jaborski, the scoutmaster, had taken other groups of scouts on winter survival hikes every year for sixteen years, and no one had been even slightly injured

At least a year and a half, maybe two years, had passed since a man had looked at her in quite that fashion

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site, where underground detonations were conducted several times a year, was less than a hundred miles north of Las Vegas

Except, of course, that the boy who had once slept here had been dead for a year

As she listed her blessings, Tina was astonished at how much difference one year could make in a life

Bally's, formerly the MGM Grand, was getting to be one of the older establishments on the continuously rejuvenating Las Vegas Strip, but it was still one of the most popular hotels in town, and on this last day of the year it was packed

"Michael-" she began, intending to tell him that she was going to stage another show within the next year, that she didn't want to be represented by only one production at a time, and that she even had distant designs on New York and Broadway, where the return of Busby Berkeley - style musicals might be greeted with cheers.

Of course, we'll wait a year or so

"During the year, I'm going to send special invitations to the married ones, asking them to spend their anniversaries here, with everything comped for three days

"The casino bosses will like it too, 'cause a lot of our high rollers will probably make an extra trip this year

happy new year, Tina."

"Happy new year."

If she needed to know how much money each of these people earned in a year, the computer could tell her

"Helen Mainway told me he died a little over a year ago."

"And the boys competed hard all year for the chance to be one of those selected to go on the trip

A year ago, Jaborski's excursion had included fourteen boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen

"The body's in an airtight casket, but it'll be even more deteriorated now than it was a year ago when they recommended you not look at it."

This eight-year-old girl died unexpectedly of a congenital kidney disease

"And we reopened the grave only two months after the funeral, not a whole year later

"With me, of course, it's only been little more than a year since I've been alone

And if, by some million-to-one chance, the boy had been alive when he'd been buried, why would it take an entire year for her to receive a vision from the spirit world?

With more than a million full-time residents, with more than twenty million tourists a year, and with a vast desert on which to sprawl, Vegas offered thousands of dark, quiet corners where two people on the run could safely stop to catch their breath and settle upon a course of action.

for the past year I've been struggling to adjust to the fact that Danny died in that stupid, pointless accident

If they hadn't seen their kids' bodies, they might have just gone through a year of doubt like you did, might be easily persuaded to join us in a call for the reopening of all the graves

Ruby Ridge - a fourteen-year-old boy shot in the back by the FBI

Neither one of us has a coat, and it's damn cold in Reno at this time of year."

This is one of their busiest times of the year

"Maybe it took a year of stress and fear to develop the ability

In the meantime, Network agents could have located a boy's body in the same state of decay, as Danny's corpse would have been if it had been locked in that coffin for the past year

They aren't the same as they were when he first came in here a year ago."

During the first year, he'd taken commercial flights or rented the services of a trustworthy private pilot who could fly the conventional twin-engine craft that Alexander's predecessor had managed to pry out of the Network's budget

The Department of Defense, which was less flush than Health and Welfare these days, was nevertheless also guilty of waste, and it was good for at least another billion a year

An executive jet for the chief of the vital Nevada bureau was not an extravagance, and Alexander believed his improved performance over the past year had convinced the old man in Washington that this was money well spent.

"You know what it's like down there this time of year

A year later, Tina has reason to believe the accident did not occur as reported - that her son is alive, is being held against his will, and is in desperate need of her

By this time, we had passed the one-year mark in the development process, and I knew we were not going to wind up with a usable script, so I didn't insist on discussing whether the rubber tires would melt off the vehicle within two hundred yards or three, or ponder at what point the gasoline tank might explode

'Everything went well until a year later,' said John Openshaw

The winter storms at sea that year were worse than ever, and so the Star never arrived in Georgia, and nobody saw the captain or his men again

For a year before his death, my husband had told me about some of his experiments

That month of waiting seemed like a year

'About a year ago

In a year, I thought, we would rebuild all that had been destroyed.

In one year, he had one hundred and fourteen street fights with other dogs

Here is a fifty-year-old 'big man' who thinks he is somebody

And a twenty-three-year-old child who chooses a silly way to fight life's problems

The date of the wedding is the twenty-second of December of this year

While my wife lives, I get three thousand pounds a year, but that's not enough to pay my debts.'

A little more than a year had passed since she had said that, and now her wish had come true

At sixty, I adored that woman with the volcanic passion of an eighteen-year-old

Over the year of my investigation, I had asked the people involved to provide the narratives that have been presented here

Sir Percival and the Count had spent all Laura's money, so we could not get it back, but the following year Mr Frederick Fairlie died, so Limmeridge House was Laura's

The following year our son was born, and he is now the heir of Limmeridge House.

They married in New York City in 1897 and had a son, Robert, a year later

Later that year, she bought her first aeroplane

The next year, she flew to 14,000 feet, higher than any other woman before

Even he - a fifty-five-year-old man - could win against the best female players

The twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean beat the fifty-five-year-old Bobby 6-4, 6 - 3, 6-3