Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] years [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 2 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 3 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 4 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 5 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |