Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] last years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his last years his health became impaired , and in 1965 he left his rooms in Nevile 's Court , with a fine Athena for a door knocker , for a set in the King 's Hostel , where there was a lift . |
| 2 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
| 3 | In his last years he featured in a number of important legal cases , and also became the subject of a famous caricature drawn on a tallage roll of 1233 . |
| 4 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
| 5 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 6 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |