Example sentences of "his [adj] year [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 2 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 3 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 4 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 5 | Within his first year he was implementing cuts of twenty million pounds . |
| 6 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 7 | From his earliest years he was interested in the macabre — fairy tales , practical jokes , and the comic drawings of the famous German illustrators and caricaturists . |
| 8 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 9 | In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate . |