Example sentences of "in [num] year [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 2 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 3 | ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said . |
| 4 | It was the first time in fourteen years that he was travelling alone , his best friend having died of pneumonia only weeks before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Erwin even questions whether there is room for the mainframe in this scenario — ‘ If the mainframe 's price-performance relationship is the same in five years as it is now , it does n't stand a chance ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 8 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 10 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 11 | The Prince of Wales kissed his wife in public in February the first time in four years as she presented prizes to players in his polo match on their Indian tour . |
| 12 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 13 | Dr James Walker , assistant director of the laboratory , estimates that the four computers will pay for themselves in two years because they reduce the high cost of buying , housing and feeding experimental animals . |
| 14 | But we shall see in 200 years if I am right . ’ |