Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 2 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 3 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 4 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 5 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 6 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 7 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |