Example sentences of "in the [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Students follow a general course in their first year , and in the final year they select one of three specialist areas of study .
2 Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first
3 But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented .
4 He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him .
5 In the five years I played with Mayall , there was Hughie Flint , Aynsley Dunbar , Micky Waller , Mick Fleetwood and then Keef Hartley .
6 ‘ Unfortunately , in the five years I have been here Leeds have not won anything but we will . ’
7 time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf .
8 In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance .
9 Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it .
10 Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her .
11 Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is .
12 But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go .
13 In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair .
14 In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer .
15 in the million years it has been taking
16 The Archbishop of Canterbury and the bishops renewed the sentence of excommunication against the violators of the Charters in 1239 and in 1253 ; in the latter year they secured its confirmation by Pope Innocent IV .
17 In the latter year he also published the massive and learned Northamptonshire Families for the Victoria County History ( 2 vols . ) .
18 But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling :
19 There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene .
20 During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure .
21 In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity .
22 In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s .
23 It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 .
24 In the 27 years I have worked at the airport , sixteen of those in the fire service , I have seen a huge increase in the number of flights .
25 In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John .
26 Above : The Saunders ' kitchen has had three different looks in the 16 years they have lived here , each created by John , an architectural interior engineer .
27 I just feel that you know , if you if in the seventh year they get the opinion that you work in school and you do nowt out of school come ninth year , tenth year , eleventh year you ai n't gon na change it !
28 In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards .
29 In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over .
30 In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together .
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