Example sentences of "late years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 3 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 4 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 5 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |