Example sentences of "[adv] in his [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Pickerage is only in his second year . |
2 | He never really adjusted to peacetime routine , suffering much in his later years , as secretary to the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland , from wartime injuries . |
3 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |
4 | Also in his first year at Cheltenham , a copy of a poem by Gregory Corso came into his hands . |
5 | What is increasingly important to McEnroe , now that he is probably in his final year , in the picture he will leave in everyone 's mind . |
6 | it 's not like my brother did in his physics degree where he sort of ended up getting twelve percent overall in his second year and then took the year again and got six percent erm that 's very difficult to do in psychology erm |
7 | At the age of 44 , Keith Cardwell is now in his thirteenth year of being a professional photographer . |
8 | His old friend and mentor , Thomas Middleton , now in his final year at Pembroke College , was the only person he knew , and it was Middleton who in the months ahead provided Coleridge with fatherly guidance and approval . |
9 | He was now in his sixty-fourth year but , for all his ill health , he still had a surprisingly tough constitution — as tough as his will . |
10 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
11 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
12 | Eliot himself was now in his sixty-eighth year . |
13 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
14 | Ric is now in his fourth year at Otley College . |
15 | As for Harry , his aim was engineering and he was now in his third year at the College of Science in Newcastle . |
16 | Fred Thieler , born 1916 , fills the far wall with rust-coloured collages and last , but not least , and now in his 80th year , Emil Schumacher brings the show to a close with some equally vigorous work in the more subdued palette of brown and black . |
17 | Raymond Floyd , now in his 50th year and playing in his 28th consecutive Masters , was mainly concerned with the greens . |
18 | When play resumed , Woosnam promptly dropped four shots in two holes with double bogeys at both the fourth and fifth as Raymond Floyd , now in his 50th year , went to the front with Fred Couples , both standing on 10 under par after eight holes . |
19 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
20 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
21 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
22 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
23 | A record of the settlement of a dispute involving the bishop of Worcester in 789 , which refers to Offa as then in his thirty-first year as king ( CS 256 : S 1430 ) , means that Offa can not have become king before 758 . |
24 | Dick Pountaine , then in his final year of a chemistry degree at Imperial College , after two years of South Kensington had realized that Notting Hill was the place to live , with 3-a-week bedsits , and plenty of places to score . |
25 | Chicago-born , she was the first woman graduate of London School of Economics ; widely travelled , she lived ‘ a romantic life ’ , and nursed Woolley lovingly in his final years . |
26 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
27 | Ecgfrith , his successor , is given a reign of fifteen years in the Northumbrian regnal list , but Bede says that he was killed on 20 May 685 in his fifteenth year ( HE IV , 24 ) , and that Ecgfrith was indeed in his fifteenth year in 685 is confirmed by the inscription at Jarrow which records the dedication of the church on 23 April ( which fell on a Sunday in 685 ) , a month before his death , in his fifteenth year . |
28 | ‘ Yet in his six years here he has won two championship medals and made a big contribution . |
29 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
30 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |