Example sentences of "[adj] years in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 2 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 9 | But after so many years in showbusiness it was n't surprising . |
| 10 | Over many years in California they had acquired the know-how required to exploit a weak party situation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
| 13 | If we consider starting the endowment here but presumably gon na run twenty-five years in fact you 're gon na finish in year twenty-three when they borrowed the money , are n't they , so they 've only borrowed the money for twenty-three years . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Even the Sun avoids the pejorative term , ‘ girl ’ , for this 23-year-old woman whose reputation comes out unscathed from the media coverage — Brute was burned alive by mother who lived in fear SEX SLAVE JAILED FOR KILLING SADIST LOVER ( Daily Mail ) ; SEX-SLAVE MUM GETS 3 YEARS IN JAIL She burned kinky lover ( Sun ) . |
| 17 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After five years in Vienna he taught in Trieste , Greece and Moldavia before studying philosophy in Halle . |
| 20 | Coincidentally , Alwen — celebrating his 28th wedding anniversary — thought after almost four harrowing years in charge his luck was finally in . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For the first two years in government we will concentrate resources on the essential tasks of combating unemployment and poverty … |
| 23 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 24 | ‘ AT THE tail-end of 14 years in power our rump of a Conservative Government can think of nothing but half-hearted socialist measures , as if through introducing socialism by the back door it will somehow ease its own exit by the front ’ — Commentator Auberon Waugh . |
| 25 | 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 . |