Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In his latter years Tilden also studied the specific heat of metals over a wide range of temperatures , and the history of chemistry . |
2 | In his final years Clanvow participated in the revival of crusading activity in Europe and north Africa . |
3 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
4 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
5 | In his early years John the younger saw active service abroad . |
6 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
7 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
8 | In his last years Monet stumbled upon the exquisite notion that colour in itself could become the first subject for his art ; painting has never looked back/ |
9 | In his last years John Shakespeare was a happy man . |
10 | In his wildest years Frank McAvennie , a sweeper turned striker , managed to overcome his humble origins , dye his hair blond and become one of London 's disco glitterati . |
11 | In his later years Bunyan spent much of his time visiting and overseeing nearby congregations , whilst his son worked the forge . |
12 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
13 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
14 | In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life . |
15 | In his later years Ken 's health was poor . |
16 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
17 | from , right , is congratulated on his 25 years service by production co-ordinator . |
18 | He addressed Congress and a vast television audience with a Hollywood tear-jerker speech about his fifty-two years service , now ended . |
19 | In 1878 diplomatic humiliation at the Congress of Berlin threw the government onto the political defensive at home , and during his last years Alexander II was subject to renewed pressure for further change . |