Example sentences of "his [num ord] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued in office until his death 7 July 1221 in his eighty-first year . |
| 2 | Eliot himself was now in his sixty-eighth year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
| 5 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 6 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
| 7 | It destroyed him and for a time he was engulfed by a deep chasm of despair , drinking heavily , taking amphetamines and LSD — and he was in his sixteenth year of smoking marijuana . |
| 8 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 9 | Inside , the capacity audience was respectful , admiring and a little anxious about a man in his 80th year . |
| 10 | Here in 1868 his uncle died in his 80th year universally mourned . |
| 11 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 12 | Fred Thieler , born 1916 , fills the far wall with rust-coloured collages and last , but not least , and now in his 80th year , Emil Schumacher brings the show to a close with some equally vigorous work in the more subdued palette of brown and black . |
| 13 | In his 35th year , he commenced the study of Hebrew and the Psalms became his favourite reading in that language . |
| 14 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 15 | According to Scott , Marshall was seventeen times lawfully married , and after his hundredth year was the avowed father of four illegitimate children . |
| 16 | Omitting his radical change of direction ( i.e. of subject ) in his second year , it represents a demand of surrealist proportions , especially when one considers that alongside these he was reading French , Latin , Mathematics , Philosophy and History . |
| 17 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 18 | Not long afterwards the Liberal Party invited this undergraduate in his second year to be the party 's candidate for the county of Cambridgeshire in the next election . |
| 19 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 20 | In October 1956 , Worrell joined Manchester University as a mature student to read for a BA in Economics , changing in his second year to a BA Administration , which included social anthropology . |
| 21 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 22 | He had been appointed demonstrator in anatomy in his second year as a student , a remarkable achievement . |
| 23 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 24 | While this was taking place , the deputy mayor spoke about the tradition and said he was sure Councillor Roland Simpson , who was about to take up his second year of office , would soon be discovered . |
| 25 | Sam Butterell , 20 , who was in his second year reading philosophy at Queens ' College , was being counselled for depression . |
| 26 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 27 | The surgeon had sounded a note of amused condescension as though he were betraying a colleague 's unfortunate weakness , wryly observed , which a more prudent man would have detected before beginning his medical training , or at least would have come to terms with before his second year . |
| 28 | In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world . |
| 29 | In his second year at the College Jack Smith had Minton for his tutor and was impressed by the way he took pains to find out a student 's intentions . |
| 30 | Oh right I I was just thinking of sort of trying to you know cos he 's in his second year now for the |