Example sentences of "in his [num ord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In knocking these businesses together and into shape , Mr Welch raised GE 's annual growth rate in labour productivity from 1.9% in his first five years to 4.4% in his second five years by axing whole layers of managers as well as tens of thousands of factory and clerical jobs . |
| 2 | I do n't want to appear in front a judge in his first five years then . |
| 3 | He would have graduated from sweeping the floor , running errands and being a " reading boy " in his first two years , to distributing type and learning the case , then to typesetting and if he was lucky to making up and imposition , though rarely to the refinements of display work . |
| 4 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 5 | The next question 's got to be to Kim , if only six pounds of his premium is buying units in , if he has an escalating plan in his first four years , what 's the other twenty four pounds going towards ? |
| 6 | In his first few years he did more to establish the Hellenism of Smirke and Wilkins as ‘ the modern style of architecture ’ in Scotland than anyone else . |
| 7 | His extraordinary revenue came , in the nature of things , in irregular bursts , mostly concentrated in his first ten years . |
| 8 | In knocking these businesses together and into shape , Mr Welch raised GE 's annual growth rate in labour productivity from 1.9% in his first five years to 4.4% in his second five years by axing whole layers of managers as well as tens of thousands of factory and clerical jobs . |
| 9 | Much was done by raising huge loans — over £60,000 in his last four years . |
| 10 | The King in his last two years , amidst all his unsuccessful negotiations and intrigues , increasingly foresaw his role as a martyr . |
| 11 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |
| 12 | Of the seventy-eight clergy whom he ordained , fifty-three had to make the difficult journey to Pelynt for their ordination , either at Trelawne or in the parish church , while in his last seven years as Bishop , only twice did he travel to Exeter for an ordination . |