Example sentences of "in the [adj] years of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are living longer , and costing the state more in the final years of their lives . |
| 2 | In the final years of his life Hervey achieved high office in the church . |
| 3 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 4 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 5 | In particular , since the socialisation undergone by a human being in the early years of its life will obviously be of crucial influence in affecting the attitudes and behaviour of the social adult , then the family , as the first human group an individual in any society usually belongs to , is clearly a socialising agency of major importance . |
| 6 | In the early years of its life , Newton 's gravitational theory was falsified by observations of the moon 's orbit . |
| 7 | With the latter , the payments are concentrated in the early years of their lives , while with the former , they are concentrated in the later years . |
| 8 | Thus his writings give the opposite impression to those of the earlier moralists like Salvian , and even of that conveyed by Paulinus of Pella , a member of the senatorial aristocracy who collaborated with the Visigoths in the early years of their settlement in Aquitaine , but eventually lost the majority of his property , as he relates in his autobiographical poem , the Eucharisticon . |
| 9 | In the early years of her reign Elizabeth was faced with an urgent crisis on her northern border , and in 1562–4 she pursued an expensive adventure into France . |
| 10 | Though Ivan claimed success with women , despite or because of his natural handicaps , and Liz herself , though she had not slept with him , had on one occasion in the early years of her marriage to Charles found herself , to her own surprise , sitting on a table in a flat in Belsize Park Gardens with Ivan 's hand inside her bra . |
| 11 | Doubts of the sincerity of her much-advertised desire for reform were already being voiced in the early years of her reign . |
| 12 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 13 | A notable change occurred in the criticism of Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the early years of her career . |
| 14 | Read the quest of Francis of Assisi as a young man , or the search of Ignatius of Loyola in the early years of his conversion . |
| 15 | In the early years of his premiership he was very sharp , though , as Iain Macleod recalled , ‘ he could be maddeningly discursive — it was nothing to reach a decision on an enquiry into rating via the Greek Wars and Parnell ’ . |
| 16 | Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign . |
| 17 | But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life . |
| 18 | But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 . |
| 19 | I guessed we might be in the latter years of her reign — Shakespeare would still be alive ! |
| 20 | This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level . |
| 21 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 22 | In the earliest years of their missionary efforts Dr Tord writes : |
| 23 | In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats . |
| 24 | In the first years of her elephant sanctuary , many of the young ones died . |
| 25 | Eardwulf met and countered a succession of threats from rival aethelings in the first years of his reign . |
| 26 | In 1906 the Colonisation Commission estimated that it had brought over 14,000 German families to the east in the 20 years of its existence , and claimed to have removed over 40,000 Poles . |
| 27 | Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life . |
| 28 | This discovery does make the point that trade had been established and there is no reason to think that in the closing years of his reign , when Cunobelinus was showing strong pro-Roman tendencies these commercial links with the Roman world would not have been fostered . |
| 29 | In the closing years of his life he suffered serious illness . |
| 30 | Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career . |