Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 2 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 3 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 4 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 5 | And even when you got into your second years you did get erm two hours off one day and three hours the next , which was usually five till eight . |
| 6 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 7 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 9 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 10 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 11 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 12 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 13 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 14 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 15 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 16 | In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval . |
| 17 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 18 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
| 19 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 20 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 21 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |
| 22 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 23 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 24 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 25 | In his final years he witnessed the introduction of vaccination ( 1798 ) and the rejection of inoculation by the majority of doctors . |
| 26 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 29 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 30 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |