Example sentences of "[noun] in [pron] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on . |
| 2 | It also marked the breaking of a link with the past through the death of Miss Helen Stocks who had done much to promote and sustain the work of the District and the WEA in its early years in Northamptonshire . |
| 3 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 4 | My main misadventures on the roads came into my mind when it was time to choose a horse for happy hacking in my middle years . |
| 5 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 6 | The cruel semi-obscurity visited upon Angus Wilson in his declining years is ghastly to contemplate . |
| 7 | Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass . |
| 8 | It is interesting for the accounts of the skirmishing that rattled Canada in its early years , and the actions between Canada and the nascent USA . |
| 9 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 10 | That meant ideas , understanding people , searching for motives ; he did n't want to change the world as Anna did and Constanza in her early years . |
| 11 | The success of PRL in its early years led to the expansion of its activities , with the construction of pilot plant and production facilities enabling the company to offer a complete service from laboratory research , through pilot plant development and the production of intermediate quantities of material to large-scale commercial manufacture . |
| 12 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 13 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 14 | Those who have not experienced some type of long-term , warm , trusting relationship in their early years often lack self-confidence and may find it difficult to communicate effectively with other people . |
| 15 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 16 | It was also known that he was a hobo in his final years , and that he had always had a keen eye for women . |
| 17 | The Royal Society seems to have achieved little in this direction in its early years ; in Paris , however , the academie fostered someone who worked diligently at the applications of science . |
| 18 | One of six ancient university presses ( four of them Scottish ) , Edinburgh had a distinct advantage in its early years with a patent from Charles II which made it Scotland 's official publishing house . |
| 19 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 20 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 21 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 22 | A strong supporter of the Stewarts in his early years , he was knighted by Charles II , but when the Stewart King , James II and VII was deposed in favour of Prince William of Orange , Dalrymple found no difficulty in throwing his full support behind the new King William . |
| 23 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 24 | Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years . |
| 25 | Observing Irina in her advancing years , it is only occasionally that she reminds me of my mother or Aunt Anna — a look , a gesture , a sudden exclamation . |
| 26 | No-one except those who are wilfully blind to the nature of our proceedings can possibly spell out of the Bill any condonation whatever of homosexual conduct which can affect young people in their formative years . |
| 27 | Staff are dedicated to their work and generally regard it as vocational , having to cope with frail and sometimes difficult people in their declining years , and , on occasions , the reality of death . |
| 28 | Television can be a positive influence : it may ( in moderation ) give brighter children a faster start in their pre-school years and make the dull children a little more knowledgeable about the world . |
| 29 | The Midland Wagon Company 's influence on the BCR in its early years was very strong . |
| 30 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |