Example sentences of "[noun sg] in his [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 2 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 3 | His wealth in his latter years is problematic ; he lived in Bethnal Green , died intestate , and was buried in Kensington 6 July 1701 . |
| 4 | ( The obvious if partial exception here is again Frederick II ; but he never had the material resources needed for a truly Napoleonic strategy and became steadily more cautious and conservative in his later years . ) |
| 5 | He says that this is the most unpleasant period in his 25 years in local Government . |
| 6 | His custom in his latter years was to attend here at all on Sunday mornings when he would occasionally the sermon being preached by one of his curates or his nephew , Reverend . |
| 7 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | With Nottingham Forest bottom of the Premier League , manager Clough is reeling from the club 's worst start in his 17 years as boss at the City Ground . |
| 11 | I remember discussing broken tanks with perhaps the most experienced fishkeeper I know ‘ Aquarian ’ expert Dr David Ford , and he 's had only one breakage in his fifty years in the hobby . |
| 12 | For such a successful man in his middle years , his reliance on the young army officer was touching . |
| 13 | A fondness for dumb beasts may have been in the Hauxwell blood , because her Uncle Tommy , not a sentimental man in his later years , was a compassionate ‘ amateur ’ vet in Baldersdale . |
| 14 | Always of weak constitution , he suffered progressively from blindness in his last years , and died a bachelor 14 March 1855 in Thurlby . |
| 15 | A rough diamond in his earlier years , he has now become a sophisticated centre who was drafted into the Irish World Cup squad , although he languished on the bench and was never called upon . |
| 16 | ‘ Jim had a very eventful life in his 27 years , so the question is what you leave out . |
| 17 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 22 | Prose became his main medium of literary expression in his later years and among his more important works are the autobiographical Hen Atgofion ( 1936 ) , his biography of Owen Morgan Edwards ( 1937 ) , both of which are classics of Welsh prose literature , and Y Tro Olaf ( 1939 ) . |
| 23 | After his record-breaking exploits with Wigan , Iro did n't strike gold in his two years at Manly . |
| 24 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 25 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 26 | That seems to have been his view in his first years as archbishop . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister of Singapore , Lee Kuan Yew , visited China on Oct. 16-24 , his fifth such visit in his 31 years as Premier . |
| 28 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 29 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 30 | 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 . |