Example sentences of "the [adj] year of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that in the first year of life you 're more likely than at any other time in your life to die at the hands of somebody else . |
| 2 | By the end of the first year of revolution they had ten thousand members , so they erm increased in size ten times in the space of about six months . |
| 3 | Within the first year of residence you should make arrangements to obtain a Northern Ireland licence and you may need to take a driving test before a licence can be granted . |
| 4 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 5 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |