Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my early twenties I found that I would become aggressive when I was given a compliment . |
| 2 | Had I been a father in my early twenties I would have been dreadful because there were so many things I still wanted to do . ’ |
| 3 | It is unmarried women in their late 20s who have the highest risk of illegitimate birth . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will revise the state earnings-related pension scheme to make higher pensions available for those people made redundant in their late 50s who are unlikely to obtain another job . |
| 5 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 6 | Monkey Andrew Davies A diary-like stream of consciousness novel as told by two chalk-and-cheese characters in their early twenties who become almost irrevocably involved with each other . |
| 7 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 8 | Doreen is a great-grandmother in her late 70s who looks 20 years younger . |
| 9 | I have a young friend in her early twenties who wants to do some A-levels at a reasonable nightschool in London . |
| 10 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 11 | On her return to Broadway Miss Picon played a string of leads — all in Yiddish — at Kessler 's Theatre , and won such acclaim that while still in her early thirties she was top of the bill at the Palace , America 's leading vaudeville house , and had a New York theatre named after her . |
| 12 | There was a peremptory sharpness to the knock which announced the presence of Mrs Bradshaw , a lady in her early sixties who lived in the next-door flat . |
| 13 | Also , on the basis of an outline and ‘ three or four ’ chapters of a first novel , she has done a five-figure deal for two books by Juliette Mead , a woman in her early 30s who works in the cit . |
| 14 | Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position . |
| 15 | Miss Harder was a spinster in her early fifties who ran a small tobacconist 's shop in London 's Archway . |
| 16 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 17 | She also wrote poetry , often reflecting the healthy sexuality of a woman in her early forties who enjoyed a fulfilling family life . |
| 18 | Yeah , one of them 's I think she was in her early eighties she , they put on a Christmas party and she sang . |
| 19 | Taking hold of Willie 's hand in her soft pudgy one she shook it . |
| 20 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 21 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 22 | in Brazil the archbishop now in his late eighties I should think was renowned everywhere said that there 's a quote here from him on the Traidcraft leaflet . |
| 23 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 24 | Having settled in London in his early twenties he edited Gossip and Piccadilly , and in 1891–3 was foreign editor of the Globe . |
| 25 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 26 | The handsome young Annamese in his early twenties who offered his hand promptly to Joseph and his mother had the piercing gaze and broad forehead of a scholar . |
| 27 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 28 | In his early fifties he took up flying , gaining both French Aviators ' and Royal Aero Club certificates . |
| 29 | He pushed his handkerchief back into his pocket and looked across at his deputy , Sergei Kolchinsky , a Russian in his early fifties who had become an invaluable member of the team since joining UNACO from the KGB four years earlier . |
| 30 | At night , the temporary territory is hardly their own : " You get your own room in the Salvation Army , and technically you 've got a lock , " said a man in his early forties who was sent there after losing his job and marriage . |