Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 2 | In 1868 he began a two-year novitiate at Manresa House , Roehampton , after which he spent three years as seminarian at St Mary 's , Stonyhurst . |
| 3 | Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party . |
| 4 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 5 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 6 | I make no apology for reminding the House of the quotation from Sir Winston Churchill upon which I drew last year : ’ It is said with truth that this involves some sacrifice or merger of national sovereignty . |
| 7 | From 1938 to 1940 he was in England ; he returned to New Zealand in 1940 , working at various jobs until 1942 , when he joined the NZRAF , in which he spent three years . |
| 8 | He was appointed CBE in 1951 , the year in which he began twelve years as the first president of the SSI . |
| 9 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
| 10 | For McOwan he played Justin O'Connell in Waste in 1937 , the same Granville-Barker play to which he returned 48 years later , as Russell Blackborough , with the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 11 | ( Hons. ) degree and has taught Maths , English and Social Sciences at both Primary and Middle schools , added to which he has 13 years experience in embalming . |
| 12 | Our immediate agenda must be the talks on which we embarked last year . |