Example sentences of "[prep] my [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my early years at Lancaster , much of my time was spent in the collaboration with , , and on GCE . |
| 2 | I would like to take this opportunity of thanking my fellow officers , committee members , teachers and all members of the Society for their support during my six years as Honorary Treasurer and I would ask you all to support the new Treasurer with the same loyalty and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 3 | This same man wrote that he ‘ could not remember having ever felt , during my 52 years of life , the slightest symptoms of that curious disease — ambition — which craves for leadership , honour , money , or notoriety ’ . |
| 4 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 5 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 6 | During my inglorious years as a concert agent I used to reduce my clients to tears by stubbornly refusing to call them ‘ artistes ’ . |
| 7 | There is said to be many decorated examples using dot and line relief , but I have found only two such decorated ones during my twenty years of detecting . |
| 8 | During my 20 years of practice in the law , there has been a great deal of vehicle taking , in precisely the kind of circumstances that led to the promulgation of the Bill by the Government . |
| 9 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 10 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 11 | But it was not painless : he had been , after all , my main emotional support through my middle years in this country , however flawed . |
| 12 | ‘ Through my early years , I always did a lot of running and I came to the conclusion that that was the reason for my injuries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I did not get a grant for my preclinical years so I worked half time in research for two years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 17 | Doreen said : ‘ I 've been really lucky in that I 've enjoyed everyone of my 34 years with the company . |
| 18 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 19 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 20 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 21 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 22 | My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje . |
| 23 | Throughout my many years in the travel industry , I have always believed tourism has an important part to play in the spreading of understanding between countries , as well as being a catalyst for economic development . |
| 24 | I do n't know what to say , and , in a recently introduced policy initiative that has come with my advancing years , I do n't say anything . |
| 25 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 26 | ‘ To my revered father , whose massive intellect has been a formative influence from my tenderest years , I leave , will and bequeath … ‘ |
| 27 | My main misadventures on the roads came into my mind when it was time to choose a horse for happy hacking in my middle years . |
| 28 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 30 | Fortunate indeed for the club for I rate Lawrence the best all-round manager Boro have had in my 32 years on the Ayresome Park beat . |