Example sentences of "late years [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader .
2 There were no guarantees that the wealthy , stable , democratic regime of later years would emerge .
3 Whether , and how far , he changed in his later years must be examined in the next chapter .
4 As a result , the performance in later years could very easily be enhanced .
5 The history of my birth is unclear because NHS records have now been lost , so doctors in later years could only guess at the cause of my disability which became evident a few week after I was born .
6 The aloneness of later years can be heightened by other factors , some of them geographical .
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