Example sentences of "[noun] in his [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 2 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 3 | As we shall find , this distinction lies at the root of Anselm 's movements in his last years as archbishop . |
| 4 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 5 | Among Mr Powell 's successes in his five years in the hot seat were EastEnders and Birds Of A Feather . |
| 6 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 7 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 8 | With Nottingham Forest bottom of the Premier League , manager Clough is reeling from the club 's worst start in his 17 years as boss at the City Ground . |
| 9 | Difficult , at this distance , to shut out of mind photographs of Waugh in his later years in his modest country house , forever trying to look like a country gentleman and forever ( as a friend once remarked ) looking like a bookie . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His achievements at the RA in his 10 years of office were immense , innovative and all modestly carried through . |
| 14 | After his record-breaking exploits with Wigan , Iro did n't strike gold in his two years at Manly . |
| 15 | He had won eight events and nearly $2,000,000 in his 12 years on the US Tour . |
| 16 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 17 | That seems to have been his view in his first years as archbishop . |
| 18 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |
| 21 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |