Example sentences of "[pron] years in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 2 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 3 | It was one of the least gracious occasions I recall in my years in motor racing . |
| 4 | Reviewing my years in Burma , it is I hope clear how one who went out to preach a gospel also heard another gospel , a complementary one , and learned from the gentle , tolerant Buddhists of Burma something close to what the Buddha tried to teach . |
| 5 | During their years in London together Ianthe and her mother had not attached themselves to one church , Mrs Broome liking to hear a good preacher and fine music . |
| 6 | their years in teaching ; |
| 7 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 8 | He accuses them of running up a hundred million pound debt during their years in control , and says the Tories are wrong to go along with them . |
| 9 | There has been considerable deregulation in the economic , financial and industrial spheres and deregulation of the private rented sector in housing , but in spite of its frequently articulated preference for a non-interventionist state , the Conservative government has used its years in office to increase central government power and control . |
| 10 | Kinnock dismissed the proposed Charter on July 23 as " an election gimmick " designed to boost the Conservatives ' electoral ratings rather than tackle the relevant issues , and said that it was an implicit admission that the government had allowed the quality of public services to decline during its years in office . |
| 11 | On Oct. 19 the ANC released the report of a commission of inquiry appointed by the ANC to investigate allegations of the abuse of detainees held in ANC camps abroad during its years in exile . |
| 12 | Her years in London bad merely strengthened her desire to live there for the rest of her life , and while she was there her mother seemed , most of the time , to be no more that a dreadful past sorrow , endured and survived . |
| 13 | During her years in Helmsley , she had missed life on the farm more than she would ever have thought possible . |
| 14 | LAURA DISCOVERED HER LOVE OF NATURE HERE AND ALWAYS RETAINED THE HAPPIEST MEMORIES OF HER YEARS IN KENT . |
| 15 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 16 | MRS THATCHER had been a remarkable Prime Minister and history would judge her years in office ‘ very kindly ’ , Mr Major told David Dimbleby on the BBC Panorama programme last night . |
| 17 | Yet it is worth pausing at this point to remind ourselves that throughout her years in office , the Prime Minister has not created any new constitutional structures from which she and her Cabinet have been able to benefit . |
| 18 | Lord Forte was always a staunch supporter of Mrs Thatcher , and during her years in office , his THF group certainly thrived . |
| 19 | Though Jean 's resignation will be officially recognised at the next Annual General Meeting , we would like to be first in recording our grateful thanks for the tremendous amount of hard work and time which she has given to the Society during her years in office . |
| 20 | In all her years in St Mary 's Eve Malone had never been seen by the other girls to perform one menial task . |
| 21 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 22 | For the first time in all his years in Paris , his future and Jeanne 's seemed assured . |
| 23 | His whole and deepest self was so drenched in the brooding melancholy of la Sologne as to make his years in Paris seem unreal . |
| 24 | During his years in China Manson did many such operations , removing tons of oedematous tissue . |
| 25 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 26 | Cranston and Athelstan squatted down before the coffer and began to go through Sir Ralph 's personal papers , but they found nothing about his years in Outremer . |
| 27 | Herr Klein said he could not confirm that Mengele had returned twice to Germany during his years in South American exile — once for the funeral of his mother — but he knew that he had escaped to Argentina immediately after the war . |
| 28 | He plans to publish diaries about his years in office which will spark a storm in Westminster . |
| 29 | In his years in Number 10 , he showed limited interest in social or institutional reform . |
| 30 | But his years in charge of a thriving and successful golf club had softened his hard-edged military manner , and he had trained himself to adopt an informal , ‘ civilian ’ manner . |