Example sentences of "in late years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
| 4 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 5 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 8 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 9 | In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister . |
| 10 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
| 11 | His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children . |
| 12 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
| 13 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
| 14 | In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 17 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 20 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 21 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |