Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In my five years in Jerusalem , I used to spend two early hours each day in the private chapel of Bishop 's House . |
| 9 | ‘ The current side is the best team I 've had in my five years here . |
| 10 | ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’ |
| 11 | In my early years , I set out to find a roster of acts who I would represent . |
| 12 | He was one of the most interesting men I worked with in my early years . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Emerson 's father , Wilson Sr , is a journalist , I got to know him quite well in my early years in the sport . |
| 16 | Cholera epidemics happened regularly in my early years , when the filth from one village would be thrown into the river and water drawn from the same river for the villages downstream . |
| 17 | There were two colleges in the university , one a government institution with very able staff , mainly European in my early years , and the other Judson College , founded and maintained by the American Baptist Church which was the biggest Church in Burma . |
| 18 | This followed the technique of the book which had helped me most in my early years — R. Grant Brown 's Half the Battle in Burmese . |
| 19 | In my early years here , I had a small group of friends from home who were also studying or nursing . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , we seldom considered , in my early years with the company , the effect on a wife 's career if we asked a manager of promise to move to another part of the country . |
| 21 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 22 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 23 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher . |
| 26 | I have only seen one such case in my 10 years in general practice … |
| 27 | The vicar , Charles Fry , taught me elementary Greek on Saturdays in my latter years at school , and in return I wrote some letters at his dictation , for which he generously gave me a shilling an hour . |
| 28 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
| 29 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |