Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [pron] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on . |
| 2 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 3 | My main misadventures on the roads came into my mind when it was time to choose a horse for happy hacking in my middle years . |
| 4 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 5 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 6 | Those who have not experienced some type of long-term , warm , trusting relationship in their early years often lack self-confidence and may find it difficult to communicate effectively with other people . |
| 7 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 8 | It was also known that he was a hobo in his final years , and that he had always had a keen eye for women . |
| 9 | The Royal Society seems to have achieved little in this direction in its early years ; in Paris , however , the academie fostered someone who worked diligently at the applications of science . |
| 10 | One of six ancient university presses ( four of them Scottish ) , Edinburgh had a distinct advantage in its early years with a patent from Charles II which made it Scotland 's official publishing house . |
| 11 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 12 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 13 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 14 | Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years . |
| 15 | Television can be a positive influence : it may ( in moderation ) give brighter children a faster start in their pre-school years and make the dull children a little more knowledgeable about the world . |
| 16 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 17 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 18 | For such a successful man in his middle years , his reliance on the young army officer was touching . |
| 19 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 20 | The logic of early education is that if mentally handicapped children are given stimulation in their formative years , almost from the moment of birth , difficult behavioural problems can be avoided , and considerable academic advancements can be made . |
| 21 | The Eastern District had already experienced some success in its early years through the appointment of Sophie Green in the Kettering district and John Newlove in Norfolk as resident tutor-organisers . |
| 22 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |
| 23 | For example , an ex gratia payment made to a man moving to further full-time employment in his middle years will obviously not be made ‘ on or in anticipation of retirement ’ . |
| 24 | The perceptions of the functioning of the project in its early years seem to have varied considerably from one member to another , but a clear and shared view has developed since then . |
| 25 | Many are putting their health at risk in their formative years , Dr Andrew Hill , a chartered psychologist at the Academic Unit of Psychiatry , Leeds University , says in a study of nearly 400 nine-year-olds . |
| 26 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 27 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 28 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 29 | I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last . |
| 30 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |