Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 2 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 3 | For students at the London Hospital Medical College the ‘ core ’ attachments will be supplemented in their final year by two months of electives and three months for the study of more strictly defined ‘ options . ’ |
| 4 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 5 | Pesticides and defoliant residues on a swathe round the coast tens of kilometres wide of exposed seabed resulted in greatly increased heart disease , cancer , and deaths from chronic gastritis , kidney disease and tuberculosis , with over 10 per cent of children dying in their first year . |
| 6 | Professor Brunsden said that more than 10 per cent of children are dying in their first year . |
| 7 | He believes Docherty perceived Morgan as a threat to his power base and a player who had the raw potential to rise to the status that George Best had enjoyed in his early years at Old Trafford . |
| 8 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 9 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 10 | Whether , and how far , he changed in his later years must be examined in the next chapter . |
| 11 | Obedience is part of the maker 's instructions , and there is no guaranteed success without it ; for obedience is a God-created way of ensuring that we learn the right habits of living in our early years . |
| 12 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 13 | In his early drawings it was the delicacy of line that caught my attention ; there is the same exquisite feeling in many of the watercolours that he painted in his later years . |
| 14 | ( People drive cars despite knowing that thousands die in them each year . ) |
| 15 | The journalist , attracted by Roosevelt 's easy charm , had failed to detect the underlying strength of character and iron determination that were clearly revealed in his 13 years as president . |
| 16 | Second , about one-third of untrained new entrants should have the opportunity of an additional year 's training on the same scale as they receive in their first year ; together these might lead to a formal qualification . |
| 17 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 18 | The most important English writer of the seventeenth century on international law still thought in its middle years that " the reception of ambassadors further requires that hospitality should be provided befitting their rank , and necessaries supplied to them " , and practice varied considerably between different states . |
| 19 | That happened in my fourth year on the island . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The current side is the best team I 've had in my five years here . |
| 22 | As one analyst puts it , " Some of the Labour loyalty induced in their formative years will have lasted until today . " |
| 23 | The Angela Carter I knew and admired in her final years is a real presence in this book . |
| 24 | Felix may have died in his seventeenth year or Thomas in his fifth . |
| 25 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 26 | I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education . |
| 27 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 28 | Zoology , the joker in his pack , offered in his final year , also achieved 62 per cent . |
| 29 | Bowthorpe ( the electronic components and electrical equipment group ) includes in its half year statement to 30 June 1992 a report from auditors Ernst & Young . |
| 30 | The President of North Korea , Kim Il Sung , called in his New Year national address for freedom of movement between the two Korean states . |