Example sentences of "years [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He uses a study of past periods of warming stretching back over several millions of years to confirm his view that more carbon dioxide to nourish plants , more warmth , more rainfall , more arable land as the frontiers of ice are pushed back will mean bigger harvests . |
| 2 | Like many other RAF servicemen he found himself stationed in Lincolnshire and after five years service his Lincolnshire bonds were established and he later moved to the areas into the more peaceful activity of a fitter in the malting industry . |
| 3 | Ellcock plans to spend two years pursuing his interest in flying ( he already has a pilot 's licence ) and furthering his education . |
| 4 | In 1830 Artis returned to Castor and for the next few years divided his time between his business interests in Doncaster and small-scale excavations at Castor . |
| 5 | He described being taken over the years to see his sick , and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison . |
| 6 | It gave him even more pleasure in their latter years to see his parents ' joy at their children 's happiness , Peter 's included . |
| 7 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 8 | By November of the year 655 or 656 — Bede gives 655 ( HE 111 , 24 ) but again this date may need to be emended in the same way as Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) — Penda was able to challenge Oswiu at the battle of the Winwaed with a mighty coalition , for he had spent the intervening thirteen years consolidating his position . |
| 9 | A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat . |
| 10 | She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man . |
| 11 | It took Mark Roe some three years to win his second Tour event , but when he triumphed in the Lancome , he was obviously overjoyed . |
| 12 | He spent a further two years perfecting his technique at Colorado University . |
| 13 | A man called Bukhari went around after Muhammad died and spent sixteen years compiling his collection . |
| 14 | Bates back at Roland Garros for the first time in three years opens his challenge against Ctislav Dosedel of the Czech Republic , a player ranked nine places lower on the world computer at 111 . |
| 15 | But he rolled back the years wearing his old jockeys ' uniform in the Radcliffe Selling Stakes at Nottingham . |
| 16 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 17 | Upon finding the wreck the FORI hope to be able to identify the serial plates on the engines of the aircraft , proving that this aircraft was the mount of Saint-Exupery , thereby laying to rest the many mysteries and rumours that have over the years surrounded his death . |
| 18 | He started as a part-time sales assistant , and in the space of just nine years worked his way up through store management to area and regional management and finally to his present position . |
| 19 | After an HND in commercial horticulture at Chelmsford , Ric spent two years with the Great Gardens of England production nursery at Blenheim Palace , four years as grounds supervisor at an agriculture college in Brecon , and seven years running his own market garden . |
| 20 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 21 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 22 | From school , Martin spent ten years learning his trade with Yorkshire Light Aircraft at Leeds/Bradford Airport before joining Bristow Helicopters and travelling variously to Nigeria and then Abu Dhabi and Doha . |
| 23 | Asking someone who has been closely associated with garden flowers for more than 50 years to name his favourite one is rather like asking King Solomon to name his favourite wife — I love then all ! |
| 24 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 25 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 26 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 27 | Husameddin , apparently basing his statements on no more than reasonable assumptions , states that " a few years alter his return from Egypt he was appointed muderris at the Manastir medrese ; and he at least implies that the appointment resulted from Molla Fenari 's having won the favour of the Grand Vezir Candarli Hayreddin Halil Pasa , who died in 789/1387 . |
| 28 | Lybke has for many years presented his artists in an international context . |
| 29 | Brian May has spent five years making his debut solo album . |
| 30 | After spending years making his name in northern clubs , his big break came on TV 's Opportunity Knocks in 1967 . |