Example sentences of "late years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 2 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
| 3 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 4 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 5 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 6 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
| 7 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
| 8 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 9 | In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 12 | In his later years he took to gardening again . |
| 13 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 16 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 17 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 18 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 19 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 20 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 21 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |
| 22 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 23 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 24 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 25 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 26 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 27 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 28 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 29 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 30 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |