Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] in his [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister of Singapore , Lee Kuan Yew , visited China on Oct. 16-24 , his fifth such visit in his 31 years as Premier . |
| 3 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 4 | Marsden says there is more change , more uncertainty , than at any time in his 33 years in the fertilizer business . |
| 5 | More than at any time in his 64 years , Mr Preston now needs his cool , commercial banker 's brain . |
| 6 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 7 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |