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

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1 Apart from the cachet of a university appointment which followed the award of an honorary Cambridge MA the previous year in recognition of his many years of service to adult education , the post offered unprecedented security and an improved , assured salary .
2 It is for similar reasons that I have included the notes from a lecture by Dr. S.P. Dey — the feeling of certainty that LM potencies are an indispensable part of the homœopath 's armoury comes from the authority of his many years in practice .
3 Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation .
4 His many years of work on and publication of pottery included the large collections from Silchester ( 1916 ) , Colchester ( 1930 ) , Carlisle ( 1917 ) and York ( 1908–11 ) , and from the excavations at Hengistbury Head ( Bushe-Fox , 1915 ) , the Ospringe Cemetery ( Whiting , Hawley and May , 1931 ) , Swarling ( Bushe-Fox , 1925 ) , Richborough ( Bushe-Fox , 1926 , 1928 , 1932 ) , Warrington ( May , 1904 ) and Templebrough ( May , 1922 ) .
5 The particular combination of dignity and personal pride which governs John Ridd 's behaviour through his many years of devoted service to Lorna Doone is carefully related to the social attitudes of rural Somerset at the time of the Restoration .
6 This ability was evident in his many years of A.R.C .
7 It was certainly one of the most surreal sights the Doctor had experienced in his many years of travelling .
8 This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him .
9 He liked my mother ; he lost his many years ago .
10 He had begun to suspect that , despite his many years of unstinting service to the Party in both Warwickshire and Westminster , he was not as loved as he once had been .
11 The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country .
12 When she peered closer to read the inscriptions she realised that they were the spoils from Marc 's career — rewards for his many years as an international racing driver .
13 Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King .
14 In his forty-second year at the time of his death , his latter years had been passed in luxury and rich living .
15 In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community .
16 It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left .
17 His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face .
18 In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’
19 He died at home in Jesmond , Newcastle upon Tyne , 25 August 1976 from the heart disease which had dogged his latter years .
20 His wealth in his latter years is problematic ; he lived in Bethnal Green , died intestate , and was buried in Kensington 6 July 1701 .
21 In his latter years Tilden also studied the specific heat of metals over a wide range of temperatures , and the history of chemistry .
22 In his latter years , though plagued by failing eyesight , he gave considerable practical encouragement to the Oxford ‘ methodists ’ , whose predilection for preaching and catechizing accorded fully with his own .
23 Occasionally , in his latter years , his pride could be wounded .
24 In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf .
25 This is John Fisher , who is remembered for his disputes in his latter years and finally his execution in London by order of Henry VIII .
26 Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information .
27 His custom in his latter years was to attend here at all on Sunday mornings when he would occasionally the sermon being preached by one of his curates or his nephew , Reverend .
28 Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year .
29 I noticed , however , that despite his own years of allegiance he was still an AC2 like myself
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