Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's a nice letter at last about the second this year I think which is n't bad going ! |
| 2 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 3 | For the fourth successive year they have won the South Yorkshire Area Institute of Bankers pop quiz — and thus remain the only winner of the competition since it was launched in 1990 . |
| 4 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 5 | In his first few years he did more to establish the Hellenism of Smirke and Wilkins as ‘ the modern style of architecture ’ in Scotland than anyone else . |
| 6 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 7 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 8 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 9 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 10 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 11 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 12 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 13 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 14 | During the first ten years he developed many new lines , and the earliest existing price-list ( 1842 ) offers sixteen varieties of drinking chocolate and eleven cocoas . |
| 15 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 16 | Over the first five years he introduced new locomotive designs and continued the development of the main-line ‘ Pacific ’ type , incorporating detailed improvements pioneered by George Jackson Churchward [ q.v. ] of the Great Western , whose work he greatly admired . |
| 17 | For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions , somewhat alleviated at Broadmoor , where terraces allowed views of the surrounding countryside . |
| 18 | ‘ In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said . |
| 19 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 20 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 21 | ‘ I found that within the first two years I more than trebled my external income simply because I was entertaining at a large conference-style table in a nicely furnished area . |
| 22 | This 'll be the first New Year we have n't seen in together , just the three of us . ’ |
| 23 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 24 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 25 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 26 | As well as attending most Easter Courses for the last eleven years I have assisted at Guide Camps for even longer enjoying at least one week a year far removed from houses , telephones and television — what bliss ! |
| 27 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 28 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 29 | For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease . |
| 30 | Over the next few years we want to see a major reform which will help provide what the public wants and needs : a visible , local police presence . |