Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In my 17 years as a clergyman , I have hardly talked to white people . ’ |
| 3 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In my final year the same group decided to have a little flutter on the Derby . |
| 8 | I was n't in my final year but the boy who took me was . |
| 9 | ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English . |
| 10 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 11 | In my five years in Jerusalem , I used to spend two early hours each day in the private chapel of Bishop 's House . |
| 12 | ‘ The current side is the best team I 've had in my five years here . |
| 13 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 14 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 15 | In my second year matters came to a head . |
| 16 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 17 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 18 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 19 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
| 20 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 21 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
| 22 | ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’ |
| 23 | In my early years , I set out to find a roster of acts who I would represent . |
| 24 | He was one of the most interesting men I worked with in my early years . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As Emerson 's father , Wilson Sr , is a journalist , I got to know him quite well in my early years in the sport . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |