Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 2 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 3 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 4 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 6 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 7 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 8 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 9 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 10 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 11 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 12 | In his final years he witnessed the introduction of vaccination ( 1798 ) and the rejection of inoculation by the majority of doctors . |
| 13 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 14 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 15 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 16 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 17 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 18 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |