Example sentences of "his [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
| 2 | A number of key people influenced Laing during his early impressionable years in the company . |
| 3 | In knocking these businesses together and into shape , Mr Welch raised GE 's annual growth rate in labour productivity from 1.9% in his first five years to 4.4% in his second five years by axing whole layers of managers as well as tens of thousands of factory and clerical jobs . |
| 4 | He spent his remaining 10 years , until he died in 1954 , vainly trying to lure her back to his studio . |
| 5 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 6 | To cite O'Neill again , ‘ Some House members said they saw more of ( Reagan ) during his first four months in office than they saw of Jimmy Carter during his entire four years … . |
| 7 | His extra two years had come about because he 'd shot a security guard in the leg with a twelve-bore . |
| 8 | There were no Rembrandts , no Chippendale furniture , nothing that indicated that Harold Wilson had achieved any prosperity in his many arduous years in opposition . |
| 9 | We are talking of two very perceptive men — whose métier is perception ; and their recollection of Leonard at this young age , his late teenage years . |
| 10 | Like Erich Honecker , a man of similar vintage in East Germany , he spent his formative political years fighting for Communism against the Nazis . |
| 11 | But this streak of obsessionality , deriving from his loss-all those years ago , not only haunts him , it 's made him a remarkably untrusting person even towards his own children . |
| 12 | Yet Pitt during his first eight years managed to raise annual revenue from £12.5 million to £18.5 million . |
| 13 | In knocking these businesses together and into shape , Mr Welch raised GE 's annual growth rate in labour productivity from 1.9% in his first five years to 4.4% in his second five years by axing whole layers of managers as well as tens of thousands of factory and clerical jobs . |
| 14 | I do n't want to appear in front a judge in his first five years then . |
| 15 | The next question 's got to be to Kim , if only six pounds of his premium is buying units in , if he has an escalating plan in his first four years , what 's the other twenty four pounds going towards ? |
| 16 | Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk , who was born in Eureka , California and spent his first six years on a Red Indian reservation , scored centuries in the Varsity matches of 1953 and 1954 , and captained Cambridge in 1955 . |
| 17 | Of Edward 's six seneschals during his first twenty-two years as king , however , five were Englishmen and none of them acted as Grilly had done , amassing a patrimony for themselves and their heirs in the duchy . |
| 18 | Additionally , to ease the crisis during his first two years of office when the District 's finances depended on ‘ monthly improvisation ’ , Jacques persuaded some tutors to accept reduced fees while others generously returned their travelling expenses as donations to District funds until the financial position was eased . |
| 19 | I go for Vijay Singh , at least for his first two years on Tour . |
| 20 | He would have graduated from sweeping the floor , running errands and being a " reading boy " in his first two years , to distributing type and learning the case , then to typesetting and if he was lucky to making up and imposition , though rarely to the refinements of display work . |
| 21 | His first two years at the ENS were a period of growing disorientation and extremist experimentation . |
| 22 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 23 | His first two years Babur worked in a restaurant . |
| 24 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 25 | After being baptised in the hands of Henry Spalding , Joseph spent much of his first seven years at the Lapwai Mission , where Eliza Spalding 's growing band of helpers gave academic and religious instruction . |
| 26 | And Gadfly spent his first 25 years in Shildon . |
| 27 | Of his first twenty-five years there is little record . |
| 28 | For his first 20 years , Andrew could see out of his left eye . |
| 29 | His extraordinary revenue came , in the nature of things , in irregular bursts , mostly concentrated in his first ten years . |
| 30 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |