Example sentences of "[adj] year [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 4 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 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 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 7 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , during her final year at Smith she took entrance examinations for Oxford and Cambridge , in the hope of doing further work in England . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |