Example sentences of "in his [adj] years [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 2 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 3 | In his later years there was a tendency to treat Wordsworth as a venerable sage : there is too much sentimental piety about some descriptions , while others give the impression of a strange , and slightly dotty , old man of the mountains . |
| 4 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 5 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |