Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in his [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
2 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
3 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |
4 | ‘ Jim had a very eventful life in his 27 years , so the question is what you leave out . |
5 | A rough diamond in his earlier years , he has now become a sophisticated centre who was drafted into the Irish World Cup squad , although he languished on the bench and was never called upon . |
6 | For such a successful man in his middle years , his reliance on the young army officer was touching . |
7 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
8 | For example , an ex gratia payment made to a man moving to further full-time employment in his middle years will obviously not be made ‘ on or in anticipation of retirement ’ . |
9 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
10 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
11 | A fondness for dumb beasts may have been in the Hauxwell blood , because her Uncle Tommy , not a sentimental man in his later years , was a compassionate ‘ amateur ’ vet in Baldersdale . |
12 | Prose became his main medium of literary expression in his later years and among his more important works are the autobiographical Hen Atgofion ( 1936 ) , his biography of Owen Morgan Edwards ( 1937 ) , both of which are classics of Welsh prose literature , and Y Tro Olaf ( 1939 ) . |