Example sentences of "[conj] in [pos pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 3 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 4 | Although in his later years , Einstein was to involve himself more and more in social and political matters — especially pacifism and Zionism — he was fundamentally a theoretical physicist through and through . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When Hannah was young and in her formative years , this dichotomy was even more pronounced . |
| 10 | John and Margaret had eight sons and one daughter , and in their early years lived at Paynes Place , Bushley . |
| 11 | In your strength may they find courage and peace ; and in their advancing years , may they learn more of your love ; through Jesus Christ our Lord , |
| 12 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 13 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 14 | Sometimes he acted too hastily or was too reluctant to compromise , and in his first years in the White House he had to endure some harsh criticism . |
| 15 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 16 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 17 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 18 | He had a gift for friendship , and a wide range of acquaintances , but his close friends were few and in his later years were drawn from a small circle who shared his interest in the lives and books of medieval scholars . |
| 19 | He had a deep concern for the welfare of his men and their families and in his later years lavished much care on his invalid mother . |
| 20 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 21 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 22 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |