Example sentences of "time in [pos pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 2 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 3 | It 's the first time in its 500 years of activity that the volcano has claimed lives . |
| 4 | But tomorrow the British Olympic Association holds its annual meeting in Manchester , the first time in its 85 years that the meeting has taken place outside London , and the reason is that Scott asked . |
| 5 | Although apprentices wasted a lot of time in their early years , most of them had picked up enough of the trade to be useful typesetters long before the seven years were up . |
| 6 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 7 | She saved up enough money to take a manicuring course and in 1958 got her diploma , thus achieving a certified skill for the first time in her forty-five years . |
| 8 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 9 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 10 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 11 | The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country . |
| 12 | More than at any time in his 64 years , Mr Preston now needs his cool , commercial banker 's brain . |
| 13 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |