Example sentences of "during the [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 2 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 3 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 4 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 5 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 6 | If a court decides on a two-year probation order , during the first year the person is mandatorily banned under the Bill and there is nothing to stop the court ruling that during the second year he or she should attend a motor course . |
| 7 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 8 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 9 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |
| 10 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 11 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 12 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 13 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 14 | He believes in his heart that Daisy has loved him during the many years they have not seen each other but he has pined over her . |
| 15 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 16 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
| 17 | During the first year she did n't have to work nights . |
| 18 | It was now ten years since he had died , and during the first year she had herself pushed the handcart out almost every day for , except for young Ben , she was on her own . |
| 19 | ‘ I would also like to thank Renault , Elf and the team 's sponsors for their support during the two years I have worked with them . |
| 20 | During the past year we have continued to play a full part for the UK government in the international research effort which pursues nuclear fusion as a long term energy option . |
| 21 | In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease . |
| 22 | During the past year it has more than doubled . |
| 23 | May I begin this afternoon by adding my thanks to those of previous speakers for all that you 've done to raise money for Save The Children during the past year you are tremendous . |
| 24 | If you have not paid Public Liability Insurance , for private classes , during the past year you will NOT be covered for this period . |
| 25 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 26 | There had been presents and people who had not bothered with her much during the ten years she had worked there became friendly . |
| 27 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 28 | During the coming year it was intended to undertake research designed , if possible , to show what would be the effect of any such change . |
| 29 | During the next year he received an honorary LLD from St Andrews , and in 1913 the Royal Society awarded him the Davy medal . |
| 30 | During the next year he would have major roles in theatre , film and television . |