Example sentences of "[noun sg] in his [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | After his record-breaking exploits with Wigan , Iro did n't strike gold in his two years at Manly . |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | That seems to have been his view in his first years as archbishop . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |
12 | 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 . |