Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 2 | I look back on my early teenage years with some amazement . |
| 3 | During my crowded two years at Stepney , the Church of England Missionary Council initiated a study of world religions . |
| 4 | I have always understood , and believed , that you just can not " dance at two weddings ' , but I admired and respected Cochrane as the most efficient serving officer I had encountered in my short 33 years in uniform . |
| 5 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 6 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 7 | My main task in my first five years in Burma was to tour the villages of the Irrawaddy Delta , encouraging the small Anglican congregations and visiting some forty village schools , most of them having only one or two teachers . |
| 8 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 9 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 10 | I think I have sufficiently erased most of my first eighteen years , puréed them into harmless baby food . |
| 11 | I was the centre of their universe and my first seven years sped by in a whirl of buckskin shoes , party frocks , pet rabbits and circus trips . |
| 12 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 13 | In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future . |
| 14 | ‘ During my first 20 years at Stirling most of the students I saw and advised were able to fulfil their aspirations . |
| 15 | I spent the greater part of my first twenty-one years , sleeping in the first floor back , a room somewhat smaller than my mother and father 's . |
| 16 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 17 | In my tender pre-teen years , I had n't yet learned to be analytical — far less critical . |
| 18 | They may be packaged slightly differently but they are based upon the same unspoken tradition that underpinned my own short years at college . |
| 19 | I wish to applaud here , publicly , the great strength and courage of our own members who supported their Association in the face of the highest level of intimidation which I have encountered in my twenty seven years in industrial relations . |
| 20 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 21 | And if my next fifteen years are spent pounding the pavement in search of a job without a handset in it — too bad . |
| 22 | During my next two years ' absence in Egypt Manservant and Maidservant appeared ( 1947 ) . |
| 23 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 24 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 25 | Er the it was er usually gen well , you know , it was quite good apart from my last two years . |
| 26 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |
| 27 | Crawford later recalled , ‘ I did n't enjoy my last three years at school . |
| 28 | The other void will be the comradeship , the squad spirit which was established , particularly during the group of players who represented England during my last three years . |
| 29 | FITTER , and electrical supervisor , celebrated their combined 50 years service recently at the Belstead Brook Hotel , Ipswich . |
| 30 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |