Example sentences of "years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 2 | from the earliest years he was enveloped in a clash of ‘ mythologies ’ , to use his word , and grew up aware of their contributive , as well as their competitive , differences . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door . |
| 5 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 6 | From this point of view , the only good American is one who stays shamefacedly mute about his English cousins , however many years he may have lived among them . |
| 7 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
| 8 | After 10 years he worked for The Farmers Journal . |
| 9 | In his earlier years he could counsel priests to celibacy and doubters to Catholic dogma with almost papal infallibility , untroubled by a fiance 's feelings or a questioner 's uncertainties . |
| 10 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 11 | In the past couple of years he has started buying up small collections of 30 or 40 , but his weekly forays around antique fairs are now yielding only three or four new designs a year . |
| 12 | Over the years he was involved in a variety of fields from Transport to Defence . |
| 13 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 14 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 15 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 16 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 17 | Through the years he has produced almost every Radio 1 programme , written and presented numerous internationally syndicated music documentary series and published books on Great Guitarists and The Art of the Record Producer . |
| 18 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 19 | For ten years he had been her constant companion . |
| 20 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 21 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 22 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 23 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 24 | Most years he and his brothers kill 40 foxes , sometimes more . |
| 25 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 26 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 27 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 28 | For almost 30 years he was a key negotiator for East Berlin on ‘ humanitarian questions ’ and a confidante of Mr Honecker . |
| 29 | For almost 30 years he was a key negotiator for East Berlin on ‘ humanitarian questions ’ and a confidante of Mr Honecker . |
| 30 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |