1. brilliant
Our child seems to be brilliant. Of course, we may be prejudiced.
Brilliant!
American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.
Brilliant papers by Comrade Stalin allowed Soviet linguistics to take the leading position in the world.
It is because light travels faster than sound that some people look brilliant before sounding stupid.
The army was involved in a number of brilliant actions during the battle.
Brilliant people have one major drawback - they don't know how to lose.
Russell was a brilliant philosopher, but even the simplest practical task was quite beyond him.
No other student in the class is so brilliant as he is.
The idea was quite brilliant. She's got a brilliant sense of humour.
It’s thrilling and brilliant and useful most of the time, but it’s not a right to be able to use it.
I can’t ride a horse, but my sister is brilliant at riding.
He was brilliant, even as a boy. / But that was before I had a brilliant plan.
Mr President, I congratulate you on your brilliant response to China.
Smiling cheerfully, the two began to walk off into their brilliant future.
2. last
I retired last year.
Last Friday I ate dinner with my girlfriend in a restaurant.
How long did the film last? I'm sorry, I don't understand that last sentence. I'm telling you this for the last time
Last year, I spent so much time by myself that I almost forgot how to communicate effectively with others.
Tom adapted last year's lesson plans so he could use them with this year's lower level students.
It's unlikely that tomorrow's meeting will last over an hour.
I took a cooking class last spring and learned to bake bread.
There were some three thousand people who took part in the strike last week.
I haven't seen you for ages. Do you remember when I saw you last?
We met last year and hope to meet again next year.
Cherry blossoms last only for a few days, a week at the most.
The last time I read classical Japanese literature was in high school.
I hurried to the bus stop so that I would not miss the last bus.
Exports in January were up 20% over the same period of last year.
When the Englishman heard this last question, he could not believe his ears.
3. war
The war ended.
If it had not been for civil war, they would be wealthy now.
The war cost 2,000 million dollars every month.
Napoleon needed money for a war with Britain.
He adopted a war orphan and is bringing her up as a foster daughter.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors U.S. service members who fought in the Vietnam War.
It was a long war because neither side would give in.
When did the Thirty Years' War take place?
War concerns us all.
He had heard that war had started, but it didn't sink in for a long time until his father was drafted into the army.
If we want a peaceful life, we cannot help objecting to war.
A civil war began in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992.
In 1959, Cold War tensions eased a little.
Gerhard Schroeder is the first German chancellor not to have lived through World War II.
4. year
one year
My year in Africa was a very educational experience in many ways.
No matter how hard you may study, you cannot master English in a year or two.
Car production in that year reached a record 10 million vehicles.
If the plant is completed next year, a new production manager will have to be hired.
Tom served five days in jail last year after pleading guilty to drunken driving.
This year unemployment will reach record levels.
Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.
My friend has had three jobs in a year; he never sticks to anything for long.
Roger Miller's father died when he was only one year old and his mother became sick soon after, so he was sent to live with his uncle in Erick, Oklahoma.
Each year many children are kidnapped by members of their own families.
Hundreds of people marry each year who have known each other only a few days or weeks.
My twelve year old boy doesn't like to play baseball.
The nation's trade balance improved last year as exports were strong, while imports remained steady.
According to this magazine, the economic situation in Japan is getting worse year by year.
Anglais mot "at"(year) se produit dans des ensembles:
Family relations