Example sentences of "[noun] in the later years " in BNC.
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| 1 | While enclosure came later to the Lake District than the southern parts of England , there is plenty of evidence of rural depopulation in the later years of the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | I have already mentioned that the decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party in 1945 reflected a substantial shift of political and ideological alignment in the later years of the second world war , a radicalisation of which Calder ( 1969 ) gives an eloquent account . |
| 3 | The designs differed from country to country , but the general trend was from geometrical shapes — circles , triangles , quatrefoils — in the earlier period , to curved flamboyant forms in the later years . |
| 4 | The mood of self-assured hubris among economists of this period was shaken to its very foundations in the later years of the 1960s . |
| 5 | Consequently he was not able to invest in improved mining techniques in the later years of his life . |
| 6 | Secondly , the APU data suggest that this may well be a neglected area in the later years of secondary schooling both from an assessment viewpoint and in curriculum terms . |
| 7 | The quality of life in the later years is often abysmal . |
| 8 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 9 | However , the variations in mortality between the developed and Third World in the later years of life are much less extreme . |
| 10 | The Tory decision to end the war proved very popular , and it was clearly a decision that was , at least to some extent , predicated upon their appreciation of the general war weariness in the nation in the later years of Anne 's reign . |
| 11 | But above all , he would unreservedly acknowledge his profound indebtedness to the three tutors who were instrumental in the successful achievements in the later years of the decade : Douglas-Smith , Edmund Poole and Hampden Jackson . |