Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pron] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 2 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 3 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 4 | I have only seen one such case in my 10 years in general practice … |
| 5 | There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | With Nottingham Forest bottom of the Premier League , manager Clough is reeling from the club 's worst start in his 17 years as boss at the City Ground . |
| 8 | I remember discussing broken tanks with perhaps the most experienced fishkeeper I know ‘ Aquarian ’ expert Dr David Ford , and he 's had only one breakage in his fifty years in the hobby . |
| 9 | Ken Lucas , the honorary secretary described the achievements of the Society in its three years of existence , our monthly meetings , our quarterly Journal , the restoration of the platform at Horderley , the commencement of work on the Glenburrell bridge ( suspended for the nonce because of other commitments ) , the acquisition of the GWR coach from Clunbury , and the negotiations over the proposed acquisition of the goods van at Eaton . |
| 10 | ‘ Jim had a very eventful life in his 27 years , so the question is what you leave out . |
| 11 | Instinet is still small in London , but has had reasonable success in its five years in the US and , says Cavill , ‘ once you get the ball rolling this is the only game in town . ’ |
| 12 | After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team . |
| 13 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 14 | Altogether the Johnson Administration claimed to have seen 226 out of 252 pieces of major legislation through Congress in its four years . |
| 15 | THE SOVIET Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , arrives in Nicaragua today , the highest-ranking Moscow official to visit the country in its 10 years of revolutionary rule . |
| 16 | After his record-breaking exploits with Wigan , Iro did n't strike gold in his two years at Manly . |
| 17 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 18 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 19 | The Prime Minister of Singapore , Lee Kuan Yew , visited China on Oct. 16-24 , his fifth such visit in his 31 years as Premier . |
| 20 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 21 | It 's the first time in its 500 years of activity that the volcano has claimed lives . |
| 22 | But tomorrow the British Olympic Association holds its annual meeting in Manchester , the first time in its 85 years that the meeting has taken place outside London , and the reason is that Scott asked . |
| 23 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 24 | She saved up enough money to take a manicuring course and in 1958 got her diploma , thus achieving a certified skill for the first time in her forty-five years . |
| 25 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 26 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 27 | More than at any time in his 64 years , Mr Preston now needs his cool , commercial banker 's brain . |
| 28 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |
| 29 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |