Example sentences of "[adv] in his [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | He never really adjusted to peacetime routine , suffering much in his later years , as secretary to the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland , from wartime injuries . |
2 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |
3 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
4 | Chicago-born , she was the first woman graduate of London School of Economics ; widely travelled , she lived ‘ a romantic life ’ , and nursed Woolley lovingly in his final years . |
5 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
6 | ‘ Yet in his six years here he has won two championship medals and made a big contribution . |
7 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
8 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |