Example sentences of "of his [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Documents declassified under the 30-year rule tend to confirm the wisdom of his early years in politics . |
| 2 | His art emerges as the product of the extreme poverty of his early years when sex was cheaper than food and where the circus stood in for the corrida . |
| 3 | The memories of his early years and surroundings and the impressions he formed on life as a result are immortalized in so many of Tennyson 's poems . |
| 4 | ‘ We had a lot to catch up , ’ he says of his early years at Littlewoods . |
| 5 | Later on a story was told of his early years as a young and untried king . |
| 6 | Nothing is known of his early years . |
| 7 | Nothing is known of his early years , though he seems to have been occupied initially as a bricklayer . |
| 8 | The unnatural state of his early years had been reversed . |
| 9 | Though the court of Louis was surely bilingual in Romance and Germanic , Charles 's birthplace ( and hence the implied origin of his nurse — which may be more relevant here than his mother 's ) , and the likely residence-pattern of his early years suggest ( again paradoxically for a future " French " king ) that his native language was , as in Walahfrid 's case , a form of German . |
| 10 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 11 | Spanning 50 years of his life , Sinatra begins with the frustrations of his early years in the 1920s and 30s , when he was told he had no talent and would never make it as a professional singer . |
| 12 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 13 | He peered across at Maisie now , as he groped his way to the table , his face showing the strain of his forty-eight years in Wimbledon . |
| 14 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 15 | His arrest was the beginning of his twelve years in prison , labour camp , and psychiatric hospital . |
| 16 | Over the last fraction of his 34 years ' experience in the hobby , Chris has dispensed with all the traditional off the shelf treatments and remedies for fish and has turned to ‘ natural medicine ’ , centred mainly around the use of herbs — with great success . |
| 17 | Catalogue entries for each item together , with an extremely interesting introduction discussing the contemporary critical reaction to the artist 's late work , and a poignant account of his final years . |
| 18 | Although most of his final years were spent attempting to defend liberal precedents , those victories which the liberal minority did still achieve were due largely to his authority , intellect and tactical skill . |
| 19 | He has lived in his rickety hut for most of his fifty years . |
| 20 | And it has fascinated Bill Foggitt for most of his 79 years . |
| 21 | As one with a consuming interest in spiritual matters for most of his 74 years , and with a great deal of experience of communicating with those who have ‘ passed over ’ , he presents an optimistic view which , he hopes , will appeal to the general public . |
| 22 | Montgomery had expected an air of authority from this venerable man , who had spent most of his seventy-odd years lecturing students , but Aubrey St John Goth seemed distant , distracted , his grey eyes veiled by a deep sadness . |
| 23 | At the Publishers Association 's a.g.m. in London last week , Paul Scherer of Transworld symbolically changed chairs with his successor , Sir Roger Elliott of Oxford University Press , to mark the end of his two year presidency . |
| 24 | THE cracking of Salman Rushdie is the saddest outcome of his two years in hiding : an apparently forced recantation , and nothing to show for it . |
| 25 | Eighteen-year-old Chris Bolton , who lived in Folly Hill , had come to the end of his two years training with the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton . |
| 26 | The best account of Emerson 's last year in FI is in Keke 's memoir of his two years with Fittipaldi . |
| 27 | Roger , who said he was abused from the age of four and saw his mother Virginia regularly beaten , told of his two years in prison for selling cocaine and his former addiction to the drug . |
| 28 | When he wrote to the Prince of Canino five months later he had a little more time to describe the achievements of his two years ‘ in the wilds of Australia ’ : |
| 29 | After municipal elections last June , Mr Andreotti and the Christian Democrats ' party secretary , Arnaldo Forlani , vetoed Mr Orlando 's attempt to renew a coalition with the Communists and the Greens with which he had ruled for three of his five years as mayor of Palermo . |
| 30 | 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 . |