Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 2 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 3 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 4 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
| 5 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 8 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
| 9 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 10 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 11 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 12 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 13 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 14 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |