Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 .
2 By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark .
3 Then at the end of his third year it all went wrong .
4 Within his first year he was implementing cuts of twenty million pounds .
5 In his final year he took the part of Hotspur in the school production of Henry IV Part 1 and had the audience cheering at his rabble-rousing speeches .
6 In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money .
7 In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world .
8 In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate .
9 In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers .
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