Example sentences of "time in his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 2 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 5 | The fourth day and the evening following he felt well and was able to pass his time in his usual occupations . |
| 6 | But for the first time in his eight months in office , Mr Kaifu now has a chance of pulling off a coup big enough to ensure his survival as prime minister . |
| 7 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 8 | All nine of the European professionals in the field had made the cut and the biggest disappointment was Severiano Ballesteros , who , for the first time in his 16 appearances in the Masters , involving 60 rounds , failed to break 80 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 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 . |