Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] years he [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
2 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
3 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
4 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
5 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
6 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
7 | In the next years he translated Weiss on the Psalms , published an introduction to Barth 's Church Dogmatics and continued to write . |
8 | In the 3 years he 's been there , he 's had 2 burglaries and this is the second van that 's been taken . |
9 | If this elevation to the highest level reflected John 's standing with his fellow magnates , in the ensuing years he gained and retained the confidence of the king . |
10 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
11 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
12 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |