Example sentences of "years at [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bernard loved moving , and they had now spent nearly five years at Rhydoldog which was as long as he liked to spend anywhere . |
| 3 | In his last years at Repton he was happier . |
| 4 | Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands . |
| 5 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 6 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 7 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 8 | During my years at Lancaster I have been fortunate enough to visit many parts of the world as a lecturer . |
| 9 | An obvious possibility was an academic splash , and throughout his years at Burleigh he had chafed at the mediocrity of the school , the variable nature of the teaching , the dimness of its reputation , all of which seemed to preclude the splash academic . |