Example sentences of "his [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform .
2 During his forty-seven years at Hautvillers , Dom Pérignon earned the reputation of being a generous , intelligent and meticulously minded man .
3 The bruise on his ankle was cripplingly painful and he felt his forty-seven years .
4 It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient .
5 He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators .
6 He continued in office until his death 7 July 1221 in his eighty-first year .
7 He stipulated that his kinsman John Herringman should have ‘ my Coppyes and partes of Coppys of Books as they stand entered in the Register Booke of the Company of Staconers … provided that he serves out his seaven years of Apprentishipp justly and truly ’ .
8 Masefield 's years in training on the Conway and his scant year at sea were among many experiences in his early life in which he pursued a quest for beauty , in nature and in man , a quest whose romantic zest was combined with a strong interest in technical matters , in the structure and working of everyday .
9 Eliot himself was now in his sixty-eighth year .
10 He ended 1984 , acknowledged as his greatest year , as the world No. 1 .
11 His face was unlined , belying his fifty years by at least a decade .
12 I remember discussing broken tanks with perhaps the most experienced fishkeeper I know ‘ Aquarian ’ expert Dr David Ford , and he 's had only one breakage in his fifty years in the hobby .
13 He has lived in his rickety hut for most of his fifty years .
14 Deric , whose back problems prevent his pivoting , prods to some purpose for his 79 years and is mustard round the greens .
15 And it has fascinated Bill Foggitt for most of his 79 years .
16 That 's certainly what the routine has given Josh and his 32 year wife Laura in just over four years the couple have had five children .
17 During his 32 years with Blandford Press , what started as a small list mainly of cacti and display books , expanded rapidly in many areas .
18 The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course .
19 Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy .
20 But , he stood , not a little giddy , the fear to fall , and this must be ( sweat popped his head like bubbles ) , a long way , the worse hangover — and there had been a few — of all his thirty-seven years .
21 Never , in all his thirty-seven years .
22 Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne .
23 It continues : in his nineteenth year … considering the uncertain term of human life , and the fearful end especially before the fleshly and the worldly , he took thought , by the inspiration of God , providently concerning himself ( remembering his end ) , lest he should be taken in the snares of sin .
24 The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company .
25 But Mr Kohl , usually underestimated in his eight years as chancellor , has never looked more firmly in command or keener to carry on .
26 There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President .
27 Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos .
28 Now , as those ambitions have crumbled , Barbara must be remembering how it all started , the day when she and George swept into the White House after his eight years as Vice-President .
29 Erlich thought that the last week , waiting in the Legal Attaché 's section , had been the slowest in his eight years with the Bureau .
30 John Williams , Master of the Jewels and Treasurer of Augmentations under Henry VIII , avoided rendering any accounts whatever during his eight years at the Jewel-House , piled up large arrears in Augmentations , and embezzled £31,000 which were not entered in the books .
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