Example sentences of "[prep] their [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example after their early years in Britain , Sikh women were allowed to go to work but even after all these years of earning a wage they rarely make , or are consulted about , decisions made about money . |
| 2 | Several more were contacted through teachers and other sources , and I also asked some older teenage mothers to write about their earlier years . |
| 3 | ‘ Children in all social groups are storing up health problems by eating the wrong foods during their developing years . |
| 4 | For most of the period about one-third of those unmarried by age 25–29 failed to marry during their reproductive years ( the figure rising from 27 per cent in 1871 to 35 per cent in 1931 ) . |
| 5 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 6 | However , as John Springhall has recently argued , there is little evidence that teenagers suffer anything like an ‘ identity crisis ’ during their adolescent years . |
| 7 | The Government have clearly shown during their 12 years in office that , whatever the Opposition may say , one does not spend £2 million of taxpayers ' money every working day with the objective of closing something down . |
| 8 | Today 's elderly experienced great hardship and deprivation during their formative years . |
| 9 | We simply must do more , he would say , to help young people during their formative years , to understand what is at stake and to want to become involved . |
| 10 | Tommy and Bren , as they are affectionately known , are now in their 80's ( as indeed are most members of the WHAM choral group ) and are probably best remembered for their haunting rendering of songs such as ‘ Roamin' in the Grogan ’ , ‘ Old Mother Hibbard ’ and ‘ Annie , Get Your Pistoll ’ during their teenage years with WHOOPS ( Wichita , Home Of Other People 's Songs ) . |
| 11 | The Fifties were not ripe for it , but all through their later years the question became more urgent : what is the place of women in the second half of the twentieth century ? |
| 12 | In a series of flashbacks , we follow the pair through their teenage years , their weekly visits to the dreamscape of the pictures , the real-life dramas of school , family , dances and boys , rehearsals with the Staneyburn Amateur Dramatic and Light Operatic Society ( another fantasy-world ) and the gradual intrusion of realities black-and-white in the technicolor of their aspirations . |
| 13 | But Cath said it was unlikely they would get any compensation for their 15 years service . |
| 14 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 15 | The NHS relies on cross-subsidisation , not just between high-risk and low-risk groups but also for every individual between their low-risk years ( young and middle aged ) and high-risk years ( old age ) . |
| 16 | Students following the MA(Honours) course are expected to study Islamic History and the Modern History of the Middle East during two of their four years . |
| 17 | Then again , to buy a similar quality player — with 5 or 6 of their best years ahead is SAVING 3.5million Id say . |
| 18 | She had seen it every night and morning for at least 15 of their 18 years of marriage . |
| 19 | The greatest flower show in the world is how the organisers describe the result of their 10 years planning and planting — and rightly so . |
| 20 | The ‘ good old days ’ and childhood memories of their early years ; money and the cost of living ; illness and other physical ailments ; their hopes and expectations for the future ; loneliness ; bereavement , loss and grief . |
| 21 | Mo was saying that each child progresses at his own rate , and that later lulls regularly offset the apparent advances of their early years . |
| 22 | They may start out their adult life living alone , spend some of their middle years living alone , or end their days living alone . |
| 23 | For the older 40-plus age groups , often high-flying career woman who have remained childless and perhaps unmarried , the principal sources of despair and anxiety are very often an inability to accept that they are nearing the end of their reproductive years , coupled with the fear of growing old and being lonely . |
| 24 | Some 36 years later he and his wife — the Club 's Stewardess — retired and not surprisingly , in view of their combined years of work over some extraordinarily difficult years , the Club paid special regard to their retirement needs . |
| 25 | The upshot is that , since he married Albertina in 1944 , they have spent rather more than 30 years of their 45 years of marriage apart . |
| 26 | Each year bodies apply for grant aid towards the costs of their annual programmes in advance of the commencement of their financial years . |
| 27 | Bodies have welcomed particularly this component of the application procedures , stating that it provides them with a good reference point for budgetary control through the course of their financial years . |
| 28 | As you know at present governing bodies are requested to submit their applications for grant aid one month before the end of their financial years . |
| 29 | The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too . |
| 30 | In 1990 , men aged 65 years could expect to spend around six months of their 14.2 years of remaining life expectancy in residential care ; for women of the same age this figure was 1.1 remaining years , an amount greater both absolutely and as a proportion of total remaining life expectancy ( table III ) . |