Example sentences of "[adj] in his [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | But was it not a position that he had found ideal in his 10 years as a recall man ? |
| 3 | This ability was evident in his many years of A.R.C . |
| 4 | Dom Pérignon grew blind in his final years but this did not prevent — it rather enhanced — his passion for the art of winemaking . |
| 5 | His wife Fenella told the Huntingdon inquest her husband had been extremely conscientious in his 18 years with Barclays . |
| 6 | ‘ The obscurity which enshrouds many earlier moments of his life becomes well-nigh impenetrable in his last years , ’ Mr Jones finds . |