Example sentences of "in [adj] year [conj] he " in BNC.
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1 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
2 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
3 | Austen Chamberlain was equally enthusiastic at the time , but later put the occasion into somewhat more critical perspective by saying that it was the only time in fourteen years that he had ever known Baldwin to influence a Cabinet decision . |
4 | Indeed , until he was summoned home from King 's College , Cambridge , in 1698 , after the death of his elder brother , Walpole had rarely spent more than a few weeks at his Norfolk home in any year since he was 6.17 Not all families , however , sent their children away from home so early , or for so long . |
5 | Steve Cropper says that Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt are the only two artists in recent years that he 's watched from the audience — which is either a massive compliment , or an indication of the number of gigs our Steve attends these days . |
6 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
7 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
8 | His visits continued in subsequent years while he was in Cambridge building a new range of King 's Hall in 1490–5 , now part of the east range of Trinity College with the lower stage of the Great Gate . |