Example sentences of "and in [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries . |
2 | When Hannah was young and in her formative years , this dichotomy was even more pronounced . |
3 | Jean met you when she was just 16 and in her last year at school . |
4 | Pamela was twenty one and in her last year at St Hilda 's . |
5 | Jane Fry , the winner of the competition is 14 and in her third year at Croesyceiliog Comprehensive School . |
6 | John and Margaret had eight sons and one daughter , and in their early years lived at Paynes Place , Bushley . |
7 | In 1988 , 5078 pupils aged 11 and 12 and in their first year of secondary school were eligible for inclusion in the study . |
8 | In your strength may they find courage and peace ; and in their advancing years , may they learn more of your love ; through Jesus Christ our Lord , |
9 | This Indenture made ye twenty fourth day of February and in ye Eleventh year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne of England Scotland France and Ireland Queen Defender of ye Faith etc . |
10 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
11 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
12 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
13 | Adam was nineteen and in his first year at university , though at that time at home for the Easter break . |
14 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
15 | ‘ And in his final year ? ’ |
16 | Hunt remained at Camberwell until July 1947 and in his last year did an illustration course under Minton , developing a Mintonesque style . |
17 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
18 | Kenny was eager , ardent and just as principled as his father and in his seventeenth year . |
19 | Over 30 years later , and in his 75th year Kyffin has changed remarkably little . |
20 | Cuthred is said to have fought bravely against Aethelbald ( ASC A , s.a. 741 ) and in his twelfth year , which the Chronicle gives as 752 ( ASC A , s.a 752 ) but which may need to be corrected to 751 , to have defeated and put the Mercian king to flight at the battle of Beorhford . |
21 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
22 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
23 | He had a gift for friendship , and a wide range of acquaintances , but his close friends were few and in his later years were drawn from a small circle who shared his interest in the lives and books of medieval scholars . |
24 | He had a deep concern for the welfare of his men and their families and in his later years lavished much care on his invalid mother . |
25 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
26 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |