Example sentences of "in my [num ord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main task in my first five years in Burma was to tour the villages of the Irrawaddy Delta , encouraging the small Anglican congregations and visiting some forty village schools , most of them having only one or two teachers . |
| 2 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 3 | In my first few years in Parliament , the building industry experienced a tremendous downturn in its work load and was worried about its future . |
| 4 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 5 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |