Example sentences of "[adj] years she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 2 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 3 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 4 | In those hungry , freezing years she had borne and lost two children in the small sod hut in which they lived , before Olga , coming in slightly easier times , had survived . |
| 5 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 6 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 7 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 8 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |