Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 2 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 3 | Founded by IBM 's famous Scots-Irish Watsons , Greenock foundered for its first years , until IBM learned that the best people to run a factory in Scotland were usually Scots . |
| 4 | The paranoia which is evinced in the diaries of her last years at Clarence Gate Gardens is then partly justified , if she knew that such a course was being taken against her . |
| 5 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 6 | His North African tale Santal appeared in 1921 , and The Flower Beneath the Foot , the first of the three major novels of his last years , in 1923 . |
| 7 | Thomas Wilson was first chairman of the Hull Underwriters Association , founded in 1867 , and spent much of his last years in various charitable enterprises . |
| 8 | Lassus was no less versatile in his Italian pieces : such classic madrigals as his early Petrarch settings — ‘ Occhi piangete ’ , ‘ Amor che ved' ogni pensier ’ — and the profoundly melancholy Lagrime di San Pietro of his last years , mentioned in the previous chapter ( p. 246 ) , and the delicious humour of the Villanelle , Moresche et altre canzoni ( Paris , 1581 ) which include his best-known songs : the Landsknecht 's serenade in Germanic Italian , ‘ Matonna mia cara ’ , and ‘ O la , o che bon eccho ! ’ in which two quartets sing in close canon throughout . |
| 9 | She 's one of your third years though is n't she ? |
| 10 | And even when you got into your second years you did get erm two hours off one day and three hours the next , which was usually five till eight . |
| 11 | Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher . |
| 12 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 13 | The graduate courses are targeted at students in their first years at university , and the Masters at post-graduates or professionals with experience . |
| 14 | At whatever level we are working ( be it with children in their first years in school , or with adults ) the first engagement with the work comes through dramatic tension of some kind . |
| 15 | Drama with children in their first years of school differs from drama with older children only in content and organisation , not in basic approaches to the subject . |
| 16 | The lives of both the Duke of Windsor and his spouse were rendered miserable in their last years by her quest , and his support for that quest , to be entitled to the description of ‘ Her Royal Highness ’ . |
| 17 | The use of these coaches was mainly on secondary services , then branch and local , and in a lot of cases in their last years as workmen 's , although 1622 's record makes no comment about this . |
| 18 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 19 | Expectation about becoming queen helped give Sophia a powerful interest in her last years , but she was denied her chance , dying 8 June 1714 after hurrying to shelter from sudden rain during a walk in the palace gardens at Herrenhausen . |
| 20 | The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years . |
| 21 | All the ambitions and aspirations which had animated the Criterion in its first years had either been abandoned or destroyed . |
| 22 | The most important vehicle for this , the Dante Alighieri Society , founded in 1889 , soon became a semi-official purveyor of cultural propaganda , notably in the Trentino , the most important focus of its activities in its first years . |
| 23 | And another not strong in its last years in the 1970's , ( it finished in 1981 ) , this section was in its day extremely successful and important to the well-being of the senior club . |
| 24 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 25 | In its last years Aurae Phiala surely did mount a watch every night . |
| 26 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 27 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 28 | Disgruntled young people who currently gain nothing positive from their last years at school should be allowed to opt for part-time work at the age of fourteen if they so wish . |
| 29 | That seems to have been his view in his first years as archbishop . |
| 30 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |