Example sentences of "in [pron] [num] year " 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 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In my five years in Jerusalem , I used to spend two early hours each day in the private chapel of Bishop 's House . |
| 6 | ‘ The current side is the best team I 've had in my five years here . |
| 7 | ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’ |
| 8 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | I have only seen one such case in my 10 years in general practice … |
| 11 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 16 | Nothing in my biologist 's intuition , nothing in my 20 years " experience of programming computers , and nothing in my wildest dreams , prepared me for what actually emerged on the screen . |
| 17 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 18 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 19 | In my 25 years of watching international rugby I have seen many incidents of violence and can not think of any country that is blameless . |
| 20 | Is it surprising that in respect of foreign affairs this is the most ill-informed House of Commons that I have known in my 30 years here ? |
| 21 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 22 | How can the Conservatives make such eloquent speeches about the Royal Navy when , in their 13 years in office , they have , according to their own planning , halved that part of its fleet ? |
| 23 | In their 41 years there , the Kitchings made more impact , as for decades the buildings were known as Kitching 's Corner . |
| 24 | In their six year follow-up study of 5,000 offenders convicted of standard list offences in January 1971 , they reported that : |
| 25 | The leaders of the British jazz-funk explosion in the early '80s had ten hit albums in their 11 years with Polydor and their old contract still had another six albums to run . |
| 26 | Mick and Jerry have had plenty of ups and downs in their 15 years together . |
| 27 | In their ten years , Cheek by Jowl have played in 260 towns spread across five continents . |
| 28 | This model is the first estate Aston Martin have actually made themselves in their 78 year history . |
| 29 | Here , they are taken by the ocean currents into the Gulf Stream , in which three years pass as they slowly drift towards Europe and make their homes in the rivers , lakes and pools , far distant from their place of birth . |
| 30 | In her thirty-two years of office , she never accepted a salary . |