Example sentences of "in [num] [noun pl] he " in BNC.

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1 In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion .
2 The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem .
3 Dr Alan Stewart describes how in six weeks he suffered from headaches , nausea , loss of libido , and physical and mental fatigue as his levels of vitamin B and zinc fell quickly .
4 In 10 games he has scored 136 points , the most in the land by some way .
5 He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations .
6 For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body .
7 In three months he has n't committed a single offence .
8 It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco .
9 In three seconds he was tilting it down his throat , ignoring the cups .
10 If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ?
11 He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew .
12 In 18 months he 'll be even better .
13 A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began .
14 In 36 rounds he is 122 under par .
15 In 3 years he launched 5 AI initiatives and identified 8 or 9 other possible applications .
16 In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ .
17 In ten days he aims to teach the six to walk properly on a lead , sit when told , lie down and stay and return to their owners from any distraction .
18 But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be .
19 Mr. Crowther had his offices in an old house farther down the High Street on the other side , and in five minutes he and Sara and Matthew had walked down and were standing outside the big black door of Moorlake House .
20 In five minutes he showed his menace with a sharp turn which left Mike Galloway standing .
21 In five attacks he emptied every bullet in the drum , battering away at the vitals : the engine , cockpit , fuel tank .
22 In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup .
23 In nine chapters he takes a score of technical topics always in the news and explains them clearly and readably .
24 In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power .
25 He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save .
26 It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes .
27 In fifteen minutes he 'll know we 've had coffee , too . ’
28 When in Four Quartets he was concerned to state or develop a theme , he frequently relapsed into flatness or banality .
29 The sad thing was , as I said before , his navigator was incapable — and I must say not good enough — to get him round the heavily defended areas , and so in two sorties he still sustained abnormal flak damage .
30 In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December .
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