Example sentences of "during the [adj] years he " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 8 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 9 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
| 10 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |