Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] later years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Compared with her predecessors Elizabeth was poorly placed to raise loans , especially during her later years . |
| 3 | The Fifties were not ripe for it , but all through their later years the question became more urgent : what is the place of women in the second half of the twentieth century ? |
| 4 | Whilst social provision allows retired people to exist , there is little scope for them to grow or make full use of their later years . |
| 5 | The evidence for these remarks is to be found in a series of letters which are among the most revealing of his later years . |
| 6 | He spent much of his later years experimenting in his Heathfield workshop in Birmingham , one of his main interests being in designing a machine to copy sculptured heads . |
| 7 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 8 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 9 | Other writings of his later years spoke more of the missionary in him : the influential symposium he edited , African Ideas of God ( 1950 ) , and a series of missionary biographies , of Robert Moffat [ q.v. ] ( 1925 ) , the Mabilles of Basutoland ( 1939 ) , Lindley of Natal ( 1949 ) , and Price of Bechuanaland ( 1957 ) . |
| 10 | Other than his service to Prince Charles , nothing is known of his later years . |
| 11 | The results of this experience can be seen , for example , in the Graham mausoleum in Methven , Perthshire ( 1793 ) and a number of unexecuted projects of his later years , but most particularly in his finest and best-known work , Cairness House , Aberdeenshire ( 1791–7 ) . |
| 12 | Einstein spent most of his later years unsuccessfully searching for a unified theory , but the time was not ripe : there were partial theories for gravity and the electromagnetic force , but very little was known about the nuclear forces . |
| 13 | A number of her pupils , in their later years , formed the ‘ J. P. Young Club ’ as a mark of their respect for this remarkable lady . |
| 14 | Enjoyment of heterosexual activity does not need to diminish with age ; and , in fact , many women gain greater satisfaction from sex in their later years than formerly , when they were subject to the pressures and distractions of raising a family , or fear of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 15 | It means helping counsellees to recognize their personal needs , and how these can best be fulfilled in their later years . |
| 16 | As daughters earning good wages , they tended in their later years to become the sole breadwinners in households containing elderly mothers and , in a surprisingly large number of cases , handicapped or ailing sisters . |
| 17 | Crowe made known Lady Rose , who had been a friend of the Woolfs in their later years and was writing an elegant book on cats , and the fat and thin men , who were Vincent Hodgkiss , a philosopher , and Jeremy Norton , a poet . |
| 18 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 19 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 20 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |
| 21 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 22 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 23 | And er a very devout Christian who never went to er chapel like in her later years but she was , she was a good Christian lady . |
| 24 | In her later years a thyroid condition destroyed the figure that made her famous . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Not in her later years , certainly not , no . |
| 27 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 28 | He commissioned the most famous translation of the Bible ; was a patron of Shakespeare in his later years ; wrote a treatise on the harmful effects of smoking ; and , completely by accident , caused the revival of one of our most noble garden trees . |
| 29 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |