Example sentences of "[adj] years when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 2 | Leonard Coote , President has a record of service to the Association extending back in excess of 30 years when he was first elected a branch representative . |
| 3 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 4 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon had been a major force in English religious life for almost forty years when he died in 1892 . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've now had two further years when we do n't seem to have gone on from that . |
| 6 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 7 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 8 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 9 | An exception to that is the past few years when we have made significant progress . |
| 10 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously , in the last few years when you look back and see that it had an impact in the field , then it becomes a possibility . ’ |
| 12 | Modigliani saw the potential of the boy , who ironically became Beatrice 's lover within a few years when he was 18 and she was over 40 . |
| 13 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 15 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 16 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
| 17 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |
| 18 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 19 | ‘ And 10 years when he goes to senior school , 20 years maybe , when he is getting married . |
| 20 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 21 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |
| 22 | He himself had been an American citizen for twenty-eight years when he replied otherwise to the adjutant 's inquiry . |
| 23 | He ended a bitter divide that has lasted 75 years when he made the offer over lunch at Buckingham Palace . |
| 24 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 25 | During adolescent years when we face the responsibilities of adulthood and the prospect of choosing a career and making a living in the world . |
| 26 | Eventually we settled for a base at Ardrossan which was not too bad in later years when we had acquired much faster cutters . |
| 27 | In later years when they were reduced to penury , she displayed great moral heroism in preserving intact the framework of a family and a household , which alone enabled her husband to continue his work . |
| 28 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 29 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 30 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |