Example sentences of "in [adj] year 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 | By 1820 , not only did he own Freames , but he was apparently also the owner of neighbouring Pitts Mill , for in that year he leased both to Nathaniel Samuel Marling . |
| 3 | By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days . |
| 4 | In 1890 he officially attended the installation of the 46th Mayor in his long career and in that year he also attended the unveiling of the Armada Memorial . |
| 5 | Also in that year he formed the Stamford Brazenose Society and at their first meeting they discussed astronomy and the latitude of Stamford , lunar maps , a remarkable wasps ' nest and a ‘ stone as big as a walnut , taken from out of the bladder of a little Dutch dog ’ . |
| 6 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 7 | In that year he produced an outpouring of anti-royalist cartoons , with twenty-six lampoons of royalty being etched in all ( Hill , 1965 : 44 ) . |
| 8 | His first marriage , in 1927 , to the operetta singer , Carlotta Vanconti , was unsuccessful and led to protracted divorce proceedings , which were not finalized until 1936 ; in that year he married his second wife , the English stage and film actress , Diana Napier , and settled in England . |
| 9 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 10 | In that year he became GCMG . |
| 11 | In that year he married a Bristol woman and their only child , named Elizabeth after her mother , was born in 1811 . |
| 12 | In that year he was host to the Princess Anne , who came to the synagogue during Passover , the first occasion on which a member of the royal family visited the Jews at prayer . |
| 13 | In that year he extended his syllabus by adding architecture , magnetics , and astronomy to the standard topics of mechanics , hydrostatics , pneumatics , and optics . |
| 14 | In that year he passed into the service of Richard de Clare , seventh Earl of Gloucester [ q.v. ] , as his steward and went round the earl 's estates hearing complaints against the earl 's officials . |
| 15 | In that year he was appointed CBE , and received the degree of honorary D.Litt. from both the universities of Wales and Ireland . |
| 16 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 17 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 18 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 19 | In that year he received the title of Captain and Admiral-General and became Stadtholder of all the provinces . |
| 20 | Returning to El Salvador in that year he merged the Nationalis Revolutionary Movement ( MNR , founded by Ungo in the mid-1960s ) into the Democratic Convergence coalition , standing as its presidential candidate in March 1989 [ see p. 36520 ] . |
| 21 | In that year he succeeded Jean Ludet as ‘ Basse de Hautbois et taille de violon ’ ; Ludet had assumed that position on 10 April 1682 at the retirement of Michel Rousselet ( Arch . |
| 22 | But the fact that in this year he attended a party dressed as Dr Crippen suggests that there was a large element of conscious display and theatrical bravura in his creation of a character such as Harry . |
| 23 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 24 | The name Heryng is found often connected with Halling and another name we find is that of John Hostier , who in 1268 , was bailiff here , for in this year he was questioned over the Bishop 's land at Halling . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 27 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 28 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 29 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 30 | In these years he often changed his address in the East End of London . |