Example sentences of "[verb] in later years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | The couple had lived at the bungalow since 1938 , but were rarely seen in later years . |
| 3 | The school is the springboard for sport and , even if commitments are made in later years , early involvement and subsequent progress are important in launching an interest . |
| 4 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 5 | Under normal circumstances their production will continue , although declining in later years , almost throughout life . |
| 6 | Foods such as millet and sweet potatoes make a good basis for baby foods , and if the baby does become sensitive to them , at least they are no trouble to avoid in later years . |
| 7 | Faces blackened with grease paint , a cosmetic replaced in later years by burnt cork or mud daubs , the men crouched on the boat 's decks , going inshore at three points . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | Anne 's closest friend was Sarah Churchill , whose husband was created Duke of Marlborough in 1702 , and who won a resounding victory against the French troops of Louis XIV at Blenheim in 1704 , followed in later years by many other victories , which included the acquisition of Gibraltar , in which Admiral Rooke took a major part . |
| 10 | But by the end of 1884 , 14 sites in England had been placed under the act , including the Arbor Low and Rollright stone circles and Silbury Hill , plus two in Scotland , and more followed in later years . |
| 11 | We read of Wellington 's distress at the terrible losses at Badajoz echoed in later years at Waterloo . |
| 12 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 13 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |
| 14 | ‘ There were a few deaths in the dale which would n't have happened in later years . |
| 15 | McEniff 's zeal for football has not subsided in later years , but it now has to compete with two other compelling passions , his family and his business . |
| 16 | The census taken in June 1841 is of less value than those taken in later years . |
| 17 | More specialised work is tackled in later years . |
| 18 | Secondly , did the excess incidence of childhood leukaemia in Seascale found in the various analyses summarised in the Black report persist in later years ? |
| 19 | The numbers of Elves had so declined in later years that many of the cities were half empty and many of the lands abandoned . |
| 20 | This goal was achieved in later years and was to prove invaluable . |
| 21 | The LEA grant-aid for courses of only £45 left the district with a substantial deficit , a position which was to recur in later years up to 1940 when the LEA approved a block grant for the WEA to meet anticipated deficits on courses . |
| 22 | Although verbal agreements can be binding in law , they can be difficult to prove in later years , particularly when a new not so friendly neighbour comes on the scene . |