Example sentences of "in [adj -er] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | In later years , many of the rural and semi-rural mills went out of business as a result of competition from the large steam-powered mills built in and around Gloucester Docks . |
| 32 | In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place . |
| 33 | He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills . |
| 34 | In later years , it became the Stroud Piano Company and later Bentley Pianos . |
| 35 | In later years , the site became quite complex , with a number of mills operating in close proximity to one another . |
| 36 | In later years , a good deal of business was carried out with the Severn and Wye Railway Company , Hewlett supplying this trade for at least several decades . |
| 37 | Louis-Napoleon 's enemies were , in later years , to make great play with the supposed dubiety of his paternity , but the case was never proven . |
| 38 | While Eugénie swam , the Emperor , in later years accompanied by his son , walked on the beach — like any bourgeois couple at the seaside . |
| 39 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 40 | He could not be described as handsome , and , in later years , with his weight fluctuating to in excess of fifteen stone through his appetite for junkish food between pictures , he showed signs of a middle-aged spread ; not being tall , at five feet , nine inches , it tends to be obvious . |
| 41 | Because of the projected increase in the numbers aged 85 and over , ti has been estimated that by 2000 , it will cost the NHS an additional £400 million a year , and more in later years ( Britain in 2010 , The PSI Report , 1991 ) . |
| 42 | Among the people most prominent in Belfast were : Jack Bennett ; Fred Heatley ; Liam Burke , a veteran Belfast republican and adjutant general of the IRA from 1942 to 1943 ; Alec Foster , a former headmaster of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and a rugby international ; and Frank Gogarty , a Belfast dentist who was a chairman of NICRA in later years . |
| 43 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 44 | Glover recalled in later years that ‘ ninety per cent of the population was bitterly disappointed , and this became a tremendous grievance shared by both Protestants and Roman Catholics ’ . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Belzebub was owned by Mr Olavi Pasanen and his wife Maria , who in later years bred many well-known dogs under the Heidenmoor prefix . |
| 47 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 48 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 49 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 50 | He also had to be reminded to write to her , which he did ( in later years ) about every six weeks , just a dutiful account of where he had been , what he had done , with little of his usual animation . |
| 51 | The cast of Sea Change included , among the fisherfolk , a dancer new to the company who became closely associated with John in later years , Peter Wright . |
| 52 | The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . |
| 53 | In later years Chapman came to realize that the extension of the league system was having a bad effect on the game . |
| 54 | This observation was to bear fruit in later years . |
| 55 | ( In later years , as paperwork increased , the two roles were separated , Bob Wall , Chapman 's former administrative assistant , becoming secretary in 1956 . ) |
| 56 | Tom Parker left to manage Norwich , and in later years became assistant manager of his original club , Southampton . |
| 57 | In later years , when natural mortalities and old age have taken their toll , we may find the shoal is reduced to a dozen fish or fewer . |
| 58 | Social status , so quickly achieved , made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins . |
| 59 | This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town . |
| 60 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |