Example sentences of "of [adj -er] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I feel dismay , sorrow , for so many people in our country who do not share this personal good fortune and who as a result of further years of Tory government will experience further disadvantage . |
| 2 | He writes from the perspective of later years when the dons of Magdalen were anything but congenial society to him . |
| 3 | Or meant to have replied , but perhaps she had not , perhaps the knowledge of later years had imposed itself on that first memory . |
| 4 | The aloneness of later years can be heightened by other factors , some of them geographical . |
| 5 | The unredressed grievances and protests of the Commons against the King , the Civil War , the end of the divine right of kings , the Great Reform movement in the nineteenth century , the founding of the trades union movement , and the suffragette movement of later years , are amongst the salient protest movements of our democratic pedigree . |
| 6 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |
| 7 | Now of course at this point , with many singers , one would have to change key , go into the minor , and report that , though this may have been the vocal prime , interpretative maturity still lay in the future , and that for artistic satisfaction one would have to turn to the well-known recordings of later years . |
| 8 | And Spencer spoke of the ability to understand an experience with the wisdom of a child plus the older experience of later years . |
| 9 | There were no guarantees that the wealthy , stable , democratic regime of later years would emerge . |
| 10 | The pre-unification figures show that the ‘ German miracle ’ was a feature more of the 1950s and 1960s than of later years . |
| 11 | As a result , a champion Siamese cat 's career is usually over after only three or four years , as the hot-blooded youngster matures gracefully into the cool cat of older years . |
| 12 | There is much about cricket today that disturbs all of riper years and many who are much younger . |
| 13 | The calm industrial relations which occurred in 1927 and 1928 also suggested that the militancy of earlier years had evaporated in the wake of defeat . |
| 14 | But it was a successful scheme and was much more effective than the generalised , unspecified financial appeals of earlier years . |
| 15 | Martha stepped back off the verandah , feeling a surge of fear conditioned by the beatings of earlier years . |
| 16 | The most enjoyable film that year was Charles Laughton 's portrayal of Henry VIII , while chain letters were the rage among young and old alike , in vain endeavour to regain the good fortune of earlier years . |
| 17 | The plain-covered wordy tomes of earlier years , largely indistinguishable in appearance ( except for the use of photographs ) from their Lyellian and Geikien predecessors of the century before , suddenly gave way to glossy volumes with brightly coloured covers , two-colour diagrams , larger page sizes and a higher picture-to text ratio . |
| 18 | Now the letters begin , those of earlier years having disappeared in Cairo . |
| 19 | The farm was well equipped with machinery and did not need the hand labour of earlier years . |
| 20 | The two have already planned a Christmas together , both fully aware the happiness of earlier years can never be recaptured . |
| 21 | The four Canberras looked most impressive , although the routine was much tamer than those of the old OCU displays of earlier years — in deference to the airframes ! |
| 22 | On his return from Scotland , Edward held a tournament at Dunstable at which he no doubt hoped to revive the jollity and jousting of earlier years . |
| 23 | By the mid-late nineteenth century these three East Asian kingdoms were weak and divided , and the East Asian cultural area no longer possessed the might of earlier years . |
| 24 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |
| 25 | This book reflected a growing disenchantment with sociologists ' abstract generalities of earlier years . |
| 26 | He also admitted the faults in his writing — something which the Eliot of earlier years would never have been able to do , in public at least . |
| 27 | Sol Wagner , an American sexologist , lecturing in Britain in 1977 , referred to the British as " obsessed " with sex ; and to some extent this is true , due as he pointed out to the double-thinking of those of us who retain inhibitions and hang-ups born of earlier years and the mixture of fascination and revulsion connected with sex which lies so deep in many of us . |
| 28 | Despite the disinhibiting factors which had come into existence , a counter influence was provided by the inhibiting factors of earlier years . |
| 29 | Some psychiatrists view this as an inevitable development arising from repression of the strong sexual motivation of earlier years pending its revival in adolescence . |
| 30 | Most exams follow the pattern of earlier years . |