Example sentences of "his last years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his last years at Repton he was happier . |
| 2 | ‘ The obscurity which enshrouds many earlier moments of his life becomes well-nigh impenetrable in his last years , ’ Mr Jones finds . |
| 3 | He had to sell Ebberston in 1848 , thanks to keeping too many racehorses and losing too many bets on them , and he died in London in 1866 , cared for in his last years by a kind and well-endowed lady friend called Elizabeth William . |
| 4 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 5 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 6 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
| 7 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
| 8 | In his last years as News at Ten helmsman , he became a national joke-figure . |
| 9 | In his last years , Stalin lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze . |
| 10 | Thus Emerson 's career breaks into three parts : his years as a champion and at the top of the FI drivers ' hit parade , his years as an unhappy and frustrated team-manager and his last years as an itinerant driver in search of a lost career . |
| 11 | Before the screenplay could be completed Lee died , in 1987 , aged sixty-three , having spent his last years living peacefully in Arizona , far away from the madness of Hollywood . |
| 12 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 13 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 14 | As we shall find , this distinction lies at the root of Anselm 's movements in his last years as archbishop . |
| 15 | His armies in his last years were partly feudal and partly mercenary , and his attempt to establish the principle of compulsory unpaid service had been decisively defeated . |
| 16 | Rembrandt spent his last years in Amsterdam and the building in which he died now houses the Rembrandt House Museum . |
| 17 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 18 | In 1878 diplomatic humiliation at the Congress of Berlin threw the government onto the political defensive at home , and during his last years Alexander II was subject to renewed pressure for further change . |
| 19 | In his last years John Shakespeare was a happy man . |
| 20 | Always of weak constitution , he suffered progressively from blindness in his last years , and died a bachelor 14 March 1855 in Thurlby . |
| 21 | His North African tale Santal appeared in 1921 , and The Flower Beneath the Foot , the first of the three major novels of his last years , in 1923 . |
| 22 | Otherwise his last years are as obscure as his earliest . |
| 23 | In his last years his health became impaired , and in 1965 he left his rooms in Nevile 's Court , with a fine Athena for a door knocker , for a set in the King 's Hostel , where there was a lift . |
| 24 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 25 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
| 26 | His last years were spent monitoring the application of the treaties , and as an adviser to the League of Nations high commissioner for refugees . |
| 27 | ’ It was not until his last years that Stockmar enjoyed a real home life , though married in 1821 in Coburg to a cousin , Fanny Sommer , the daughter of a physician . |
| 28 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | His last years were marred by debilitating illness but , a compulsive worker , he went on writing until the end , dying at his home in Cambridge 19 December 1978 . |
| 30 | Talented but without driving ambition , Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson 's disease . |