Example sentences of "in [pron] [num] years in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my five years in Jerusalem , I used to spend two early hours each day in the private chapel of Bishop 's House . |
| 2 | I have only seen one such case in my 10 years in general practice … |
| 3 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 4 | How can the Conservatives make such eloquent speeches about the Royal Navy when , in their 13 years in office , they have , according to their own planning , halved that part of its fleet ? |
| 5 | There is some merit in Mrs Thatcher 's claim that too often Royal Commissions were appointed largely to avoid decisions or to postpone necessary tough action : she has not appointed one Royal Commission in her ten years in office . |
| 6 | Instinet is still small in London , but has had reasonable success in its five years in the US and , says Cavill , ‘ once you get the ball rolling this is the only game in town . ’ |
| 7 | I remember discussing broken tanks with perhaps the most experienced fishkeeper I know ‘ Aquarian ’ expert Dr David Ford , and he 's had only one breakage in his fifty years in the hobby . |
| 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 | Among Mr Powell 's successes in his five years in the hot seat were EastEnders and Birds Of A Feather . |
| 10 | In his twelve years in Paris Modigliani had painted portraits almost exclusively and had lost the ‘ habit of contemplating landscape ’ that had fired him as a boy . |
| 11 | Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball . |
| 12 | Mr Skokov has rarely spoken in public ( in his three years in parliament , he did not make a single speech ) , yet he has been one of Russia 's most influential politicians . |
| 13 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 14 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 15 | In his 12 years in power , he has resisted naming a deputy who would step in were he to die in office . |
| 16 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |
| 17 | In his 22 years in the ring , Chiyonofuji racked up a record 1,045 wins and 31 Emperor 's Cups — just one short of the record held by his celebrated predecessor , Taiho . |
| 18 | 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 . |