Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 2 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 3 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 4 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 6 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 7 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 8 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 9 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 10 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 11 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 12 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 13 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 14 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 15 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 16 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 17 | In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval . |
| 18 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 19 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 20 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 21 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 22 | His early years there were spent in a squat with an extended family of cartoon sociopaths . |
| 23 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 26 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 27 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 28 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 29 | In his later years he took to gardening again . |
| 30 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |