Example sentences of "[adj] year in [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 2 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 3 | At the Non-Aligned Summit the following year in Havana he demanded ‘ the termination of all imperialistic foreign military bases in the territory of others ’ and described them as ‘ being inconsistent with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries concerned ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
| 5 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 6 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 7 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 8 | He loved stand-up comedy , but over 50 years in showbusiness he also became well-known for his roles in some of the best British comedy films and tv shows . |
| 9 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 10 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 11 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 12 | During his five years in office he combined vigorous measures to suppress continuing disorder with efforts to promote a programme of reforms which he hoped would prevent a recurrence of the upheaval of 1905 . |
| 13 | After five years in Vienna he taught in Trieste , Greece and Moldavia before studying philosophy in Halle . |
| 14 | Venables , 50 , is the only player to have represented England at every level from schoolboy to full international , and during 15 years in management he has won two major trophies the Spanish championship with Barcelona and the FA Cup with Tottenham . |
| 15 | Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too . |