Example sentences of "[adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 2 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 3 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 4 | How appropriate , how impressive : ‘ From light years they arrived , to feel the pulse of everyone around . |
| 5 | With every light year I redeem a year of my lost life . ’ |
| 6 | In the twilight of the old year I tried a sneak preview by dipping into an offering from Ski Alternatives steamily entitled ‘ Charlotte 's Verbier ’ . |
| 7 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 8 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 9 | The war had proved Dobbie 's exceptional ability as a staff officer and for nine of the ten following years he served in staff appointments in the Rhine Army , Aldershot , the War Office , and Western Command . |
| 10 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 11 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 12 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 13 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 14 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 16 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 17 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 18 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 19 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 20 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 21 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 22 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 23 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 24 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 25 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 26 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 27 | For most of them it will be without doubt the most taxing year they can remember . |
| 28 | Analysis of Prime Ministers ' involvement in parliamentary debates shows that in the course of an average year they will participate in six debates and make six statements on policy , usually on the economy , foreign affairs , and government business . |
| 29 | In an average year it 's about six to eight weeks actually expeditioning . |
| 30 | On , on , on past experience that 's roughly what the yield has been , on an average year you would expect to get that . |