Example sentences of "in [adj] his [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | On August 19th , Palme Dutt — revealing a capacity to assess political realities independently of the Moscow line which , in all his long years as Britain 's foremost guardian of Communist orthodoxy , he was seldom to repeat — insisted the issue was ‘ not essentially a revolutionary class issue , but simply an expression of war-weariness and horror at the prospect of being dragged into another war . ’ |
| 2 | Do n't tell the 3 L-drivers this , but in all his 10 years of examining , Barry Silk has never tested anyone on a steam roller . |
| 3 | Never , in all his thirty-seven years . |
| 4 | He 'd never spoken directly to the man in all his seventeen years . |
| 5 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 6 | In all his thirty-three years no single woman had ever addressed him after such a fashion , or spoken of such a delicate matter . |