Example sentences of "[adj] year of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 2 | It seems that in the first year of life you 're more likely than at any other time in your life to die at the hands of somebody else . |
| 3 | After their first year of service they were normally on active duty for only two months in each year . |
| 4 | By the end of the first year of revolution they had ten thousand members , so they erm increased in size ten times in the space of about six months . |
| 5 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 6 | Within the first year of residence you should make arrangements to obtain a Northern Ireland licence and you may need to take a driving test before a licence can be granted . |
| 7 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 8 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 9 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 10 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |