Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Blanchfield was the war pensions welfare officer based at Hightown Barracks in Wrexham and has 13 years experience helping exservicemen and their dependants following discharge from the forces . |
| 2 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 3 | Only the two letters of Anselm remain as the record of an extraordinary conflict between contradictory passions , in their own way as poignant as those of Abelard and Heloise twenty years later . |
| 4 | He qualified with Whinney Murray and spent two years with Peat Marwick in Sydney , where he developed a vague ambition to work with growing companies . |
| 5 | Kristy , of Park Road , Barnston , was born in Jamaica and spent 10 years in Malawi before coming to Britain . |
| 6 | Samuel is one of the few informants in this study who was actually born in Jamaica and spent several years there . |
| 7 | He has worked nearly all his life for the Woodbridge firm of Notcutts and spent two years as a student at the world-famous Wisley garden centre , where he was guided by former Notcutts managing director Frank Knight . |
| 8 | Pier Carlo Falotti , head of DEC Europe and touted last year by The Wall Street Journal as Ken Olsen 's possible successor , tendered his resignation June 30 , an action The Journal said last week precipitated Olsen 's resignation ten days ago ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 9 | In 1790 Rushout visited Italy and spent eight years in Rome between 1792 and 1800 as an attaché to the ambassador to the king of Naples . |
| 10 | He was imprisoned near Harar and died three years later , a physical wreck at thirty-seven . |
| 11 | This tune has been requested by Mr. Peter Williams , who kindly furnished me with a 45rpm record of the tune , by the Krew Kats , featuring Jim Sullivan and recorded 31 years ago ( HMV 45-POP-804 ) . |
| 12 | For example , when I left Clifton and had two years to kill before Cambridge , I went back and taught at my old prep school for £5 a week . |