Examples:

• In fact, 1926 was a banner year for Klein.
• You know, this could have been a banner year for you.
• For Panama, 2011 was a banner year in its war on drugs.
• Yes, it's promising to be a banner year.
• We have a banner year coming up.
• It hasn't exactly been a banner year for either of us in the romance department.
• The year 2005 was a banner year for UNFPA in terms of both financial and political support.
• The year 2015 will be a banner year for Addélice marked by the launch of the new version of Swid.
• In 2009, a banner year, funding from the U.S. Department of the Interior helped police confiscate nearly 2,000 animals.
• The guided tour operation, which experienced a banner year in 2005, continued, in the first half of 2006, to see an upward trend in the number of visitors exploring United Nations Headquarters.