Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 2 | So I 've spent my recent years sort of learning about movements , about emerging feminisms in other countries and I suppose contributed my bit in imparting that information . |
| 3 | The final moments in the life of 79th Fighter Squadron — with the last ribbon added to the squadron 's battle streamer — symbolising all the battles it 's fought in during its 75 years service . |
| 4 | In its early years Scrutiny was a fine embodiment of the spirit of criticism , literary and cultural . |
| 5 | BARBARA Gallagher , of the Barlaston potting department , is presented with a Coalport figurine to mark her 25 years service . |
| 6 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 7 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 8 | But Cath said it was unlikely they would get any compensation for their 15 years service . |
| 9 | Buildings which were evidence of its 900 years history have disappeared and their places taken by unremarkable retail stores and car parks so that several references to streets and buildings in the book are difficult to follow . |
| 10 | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion . |
| 11 | So what happened to their new years resolutions … only one win so far for any of our Central South footballing sides in 1993 . |
| 12 | General complaints are made by blacksmiths , wheelwrights , collar-makers and indeed of all trades that are much dependant on agriculture of the great difficulties of getting their last years bill paid … . |
| 13 | In its last years Aurae Phiala surely did mount a watch every night . |
| 14 | In their earlier years schoolwork had been a haven . |
| 15 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
| 16 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
| 17 | In his early years John the younger saw active service abroad . |
| 18 | He addressed Congress and a vast television audience with a Hollywood tear-jerker speech about his fifty-two years service , now ended . |
| 19 | In his later years Bunyan spent much of his time visiting and overseeing nearby congregations , whilst his son worked the forge . |
| 20 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 21 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
| 22 | In his later years Ken 's health was poor . |
| 23 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
| 24 | In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life . |
| 25 | In his wildest years Frank McAvennie , a sweeper turned striker , managed to overcome his humble origins , dye his hair blond and become one of London 's disco glitterati . |
| 26 | In his latter years Tilden also studied the specific heat of metals over a wide range of temperatures , and the history of chemistry . |
| 27 | , centre , receives a crystal decanter to mark his 25 years service . |
| 28 | from , right , is congratulated on his 25 years service by production co-ordinator . |
| 29 | And he got the p he I think he said his first years pay was five shillings . |
| 30 | Alan Calver ( left ) received his 40 years service award at the Annual Stoddard Templeton Salesforce Conference from Chief Executive , Ralph Ellis . |