Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 ( People drive cars despite knowing that thousands die in them each year . )
2 I recall those things because of their typicality : this is what the English and Welsh grammar schools were like , and ( more surprisingly ) were still like when I began to teach in them ten years after the 1944 Act .
3 Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on .
4 My main misadventures on the roads came into my mind when it was time to choose a horse for happy hacking in my middle years .
5 In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’
6 Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire .
7 ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham .
8 Fortunate indeed for the club for I rate Lawrence the best all-round manager Boro have had in my 32 years on the Ayresome Park beat .
9 In my earliest years at Magdalen I inhabited a world where hardly anything I wanted to know needed to be found out by my own unaided efforts .
10 In my final year the same group decided to have a little flutter on the Derby .
11 I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was .
12 ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English .
13 " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . "
14 In my five years in Jerusalem , I used to spend two early hours each day in the private chapel of Bishop 's House .
15 ‘ The current side is the best team I 've had in my five years here .
16 This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’
17 When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him .
18 In my second year matters came to a head .
19 I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London .
20 In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing .
21 At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot .
22 ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks .
23 Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown .
24 That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun .
25 ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’
26 In my early years , I set out to find a roster of acts who I would represent .
27 He was one of the most interesting men I worked with in my early years .
28 Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies !
29 I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last .
30 As Emerson 's father , Wilson Sr , is a journalist , I got to know him quite well in my early years in the sport .
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