Example sentences of "[adj -er] year [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In the younger years there 's more than in older years , I think you 'll find . |
2 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
3 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
4 | This was one cause of the severe financial problems of the railways in later years which led to increasing state intervention even before nationalization . |
5 | Bennett , on the other hand , had my absolute loyalty and to witness him in action led one to understand in later years what Lord Reith — founder Director of the BBC — meant when he said " I was never fully stretched " . |
6 | In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say . |
7 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
8 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
9 | Well there was all sorts , whatever was on the go , there was raspberry jam that my mo we used to later years my father grew raspberries and that sort of thing , blackcurrant jam , my mother made all sorts of things like that . |
10 | In his later years there was a tendency to treat Wordsworth as a venerable sage : there is too much sentimental piety about some descriptions , while others give the impression of a strange , and slightly dotty , old man of the mountains . |
11 | Particularly in the later years there 's you know |
12 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
13 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
14 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
15 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
16 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
17 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
18 | In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister . |
19 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
20 | His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children . |
21 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
22 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
23 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
24 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
29 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
30 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |