Example sentences of "[noun] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 2 | In their undergraduate years they are drilled in factual knowledge and scientific method , and rarely see patients outside hospital buildings . |
| 3 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 4 | One who then worked at Moscow University , Nguyen Khanh Toan , suggests that during his Moscow years he was provided with a Russian wife . |
| 5 | In the RPF years he had allowed himself to get ahead of events . |
| 6 | In his infant years he slept with his mother and two sisters in a single bed , a plank of wood jutting out of the wall . |
| 7 | During the war years we were very short of backstage staff , so John was allowed to continue . |
| 8 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 9 | His passion for seventeenth-century literature had led the former atheist to a sudden conversion and during the war years he developed into a pillar of the Roman Catholic church . |
| 10 | And if you look at the literature on the American presidency in the post second world war years you will find two themes two related themes . |
| 11 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 12 | During the teen years it is only too easy to misinterpret the role of both parent and child with a lot of consequent hot air and bad feeling . |
| 13 | Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " . |
| 14 | During his working years he has considerable leisure which is bound to have some interactions with work . |
| 15 | Out of my 51 working years I spent seven of them with Ira Dilworth and I never had a finer friend to work with ; he was admired by all and his contribution to Canadian broadcasting was tremendous . |
| 16 | In those early oil years they were easy marks and millions , perhaps billions , were lost in the pockets of the sleazy where the pounds and dollars grew in a muddy climate . |
| 17 | Although the London unemployed had been the most vociferous during the depression years they had achieved very little . |
| 18 | During and after the depression years he taught in an educational settlement at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil . |
| 19 | Towards the end of my primary school years I went on a holiday with my year to Kent with my friends and many other pupils and teachers . |