Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We er we concur with the General Secretary 's er when he said two years ago there will be four super unions by the year two thousand obviously that 's gon na be a reality . |
| 2 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 3 | He went on to Italy , where he spent two years in the study of medicine at Padua University . |
| 4 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 5 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 6 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 7 | Mike Watts is returning from Canada where he emigrated twenty years ago and his ‘ bit of a holiday ’ is as modest as the Columbus connection is an overstatement . |