Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] later years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether , and how far , he changed in his later years must be examined in the next chapter . |
| 2 | In his early drawings it was the delicacy of line that caught my attention ; there is the same exquisite feeling in many of the watercolours that he painted in his later years . |
| 3 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 4 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |
| 5 | Aethelred is best known in his later years for his support for Wilfrid , exiled bishop of York . |
| 6 | Mill , rooted in positivism and utilitarianism , seemed to be converted in his later years to the socialist cause . |
| 7 | It means helping counsellees to recognize their personal needs , and how these can best be fulfilled in their later years . |
| 8 | Mendelssohn 's C minor Trio is a highly original work , one of those which challenge the notion of his powers having declined in his later years . |
| 9 | But he was never heard to say what he thought ( if , indeed , he thought anything at all ) about this vast amount of random detail he must have accumulated in his later years . |
| 10 | We are thus faced in his later years by the paradox of a ruler who had spent his life in efforts to make his subjects prosperous and happy compelled to create a system of secret police and to hold down considerable parts of his territories by armed force . |
| 11 | As daughters earning good wages , they tended in their later years to become the sole breadwinners in households containing elderly mothers and , in a surprisingly large number of cases , handicapped or ailing sisters . |