Example sentences of "his [num ord] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
4 | In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world . |
5 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
6 | Within his first year he was implementing cuts of twenty million pounds . |
7 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
8 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
9 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
10 | In his last years he featured in a number of important legal cases , and also became the subject of a famous caricature drawn on a tallage roll of 1233 . |
11 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |
12 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
13 | In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate . |
14 | Then at the end of his third year it all went wrong . |