Example sentences of "the [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 2 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 3 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |
| 4 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 5 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 6 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided Mervyn 's tremendous contribution — one of imagination and professionalism — over the six years he was secretary had to be acknowledged in some way . |
| 8 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 9 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 10 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 11 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 12 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 13 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 14 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 15 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 16 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 17 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
| 18 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 19 | It was the worst years he had with his wife . |
| 20 | Through the psychedelic years he was a schoolboy in a depressed Lancashire cotton town , untouched alike by Liverpool noise and London turmoil . |
| 21 | Over the succeeding years he repaid their great kindness with massive generosity . |
| 22 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 23 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 24 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 25 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 26 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 27 | In the 3 years he 's been there , he 's had 2 burglaries and this is the second van that 's been taken . |
| 28 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 29 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 30 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |