Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 2 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 3 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 4 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 5 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
| 6 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 7 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 8 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 9 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 10 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 11 | The Colonel always sought her out on the Thursday of her visit , and in the past few years he had , in the most circumspect manner , pressed his suit . |
| 12 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 13 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 14 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 15 | In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . |
| 16 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 17 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |