Example sentences of "in his [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his record-breaking exploits with Wigan , Iro did n't strike gold in his two years at Manly . |
| 2 | This ability was evident in his many years of A.R.C . |
| 3 | It was certainly one of the most surreal sights the Doctor had experienced in his many years of travelling . |
| 4 | This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him . |
| 5 | The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country . |
| 6 | That seems to have been his view in his first years as archbishop . |
| 7 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But Mr Kohl , usually underestimated in his eight years as chancellor , has never looked more firmly in command or keener to carry on . |
| 10 | Erlich thought that the last week , waiting in the Legal Attaché 's section , had been the slowest in his eight years with the Bureau . |
| 11 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 12 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , the deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said that this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 13 | The journalist , attracted by Roosevelt 's easy charm , had failed to detect the underlying strength of character and iron determination that were clearly revealed in his 13 years as president . |
| 14 | After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team . |
| 15 | In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign . |
| 16 | Gurney , who scored 205 goals in his fourteen years with Sunderland , worked out a way of drawing the centre-half with him while collecting the ball from the wing then suddenly laying it back to the centre for another forward . |
| 17 | But was it not a position that he had found ideal in his 10 years as a recall man ? |
| 18 | His achievements at the RA in his 10 years of office were immense , innovative and all modestly carried through . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , in his final years before retirement , Pepler contributed to procedures , bringing his experience to bear for over a quarter of a century on government departments and officials in them , and between local and central government . |
| 21 | In his thirty-two years as a gallerist in Cologne , Reinz has conducted a specialised programme consisting of work by Nay , Fautrier and Poliakoff , and by artists of the German Informel School of the 1950s and 60s : Hoehme , Gutz , Bruning , Schumacher , Dahmen and Sonderborg . |
| 22 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 23 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 24 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |
| 25 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 26 | Among Mr Powell 's successes in his five years in the hot seat were EastEnders and Birds Of A Feather . |
| 27 | With Nottingham Forest bottom of the Premier League , manager Clough is reeling from the club 's worst start in his 17 years as boss at the City Ground . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He believes Docherty perceived Morgan as a threat to his power base and a player who had the raw potential to rise to the status that George Best had enjoyed in his early years at Old Trafford . |
| 30 | In his early years as a clock-maker in London Fromanteel made lantern clocks of typical form with balance-wheel escapement , as well as some spring-driven table clocks . |