Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 32 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |
| 33 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |