Example sentences of "year as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 50 years as a vets ' surgery The Grange has had to tend to many waif birds and animals brought for treatment . |
| 2 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 3 | But Gabriel had spent a year as a stonemason 's apprentice , clinging to the rafters and cornices of holy buildings , finishing off or preparing the stone . |
| 4 | First you clap your hands I learned this song in my first year as a Butlin 's redcoat and slightly changed the words . |
| 5 | Norman , who left school at fourteen , did around a year as a plumber 's mate before running away from home and working on a Norwegian ship bound for Persia . |