Example sentences of "[noun sg] in his [adj -er] 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 | ( 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 . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |