Example sentences of "in [pos pn] last year " in BNC.

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1 I had learnt German at Dartmouth where I had specialized in my last year in what would now be known as arts subjects : languages , English and history .
2 Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home .
3 But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ .
4 ‘ I 'm in my last year of art school .
5 In my last year at school another teacher roared with laughter when I said I wanted to be a professional footballer .
6 In my last year with Rangers I 'd looked after the S form signings — players like Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson — but I knew I needed to see what life was like away from Ibrox . ’
7 I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation .
8 She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school .
9 All of the youths studied were in their last year of school , and all were going to leave at the minimum school leaving age ( Corrigan , 1979 ) .
10 Today , for example , in Unilever , employees over the age of fifty may choose to work progressively less with the firm and more with the community until in their last year before retirement they work only one day a week with the firm .
11 The law which makes Work Experience possible for young people in their last year of compulsory education specifically forbids their receiving payment .
12 Neil and Ian are in their last year at school .
13 The lives of both the Duke of Windsor and his spouse were rendered miserable in their last years by her quest , and his support for that quest , to be entitled to the description of ‘ Her Royal Highness ’ .
14 The use of these coaches was mainly on secondary services , then branch and local , and in a lot of cases in their last years as workmen 's , although 1622 's record makes no comment about this .
15 In her last year she shared a flat with a 70-year-old mother-of-seven from Wales , who was doing history finals .
16 Jean met you when she was just 16 and in her last year at school .
17 In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train .
18 My daughter was then in her last year at primary school .
19 ( In fact , by the time the book actually appeared , she was in her last year of school . )
20 Georgina was in her last year as a law student at Cambridge and was joining the same set of chambers where Victoria herself had trained before her marriage .
21 In her last year with the Company , aided by just one assistant , she raised orders for some £12,000,000 worth of new vehicles .
22 Pamela was twenty one and in her last year at St Hilda 's .
23 If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation .
24 Expectation about becoming queen helped give Sophia a powerful interest in her last years , but she was denied her chance , dying 8 June 1714 after hurrying to shelter from sudden rain during a walk in the palace gardens at Herrenhausen .
25 In its last year , Owners Abroad profits slumped 19% to £25.5m .
26 On the other hand , his presidency , in its last year , was crippled by the Iran hostage crisis .
27 It will total about £59 million , which compares favourably with the measly £3 million that Labour spent in its last year in office .
28 And another not strong in its last years in the 1970's , ( it finished in 1981 ) , this section was in its day extremely successful and important to the well-being of the senior club .
29 In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on .
30 In its last years Aurae Phiala surely did mount a watch every night .
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