Example sentences of "[vb pp] in his [adj -er] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aethelred is best known in his later years for his support for Wilfrid , exiled bishop of York . |
| 2 | Mill , rooted in positivism and utilitarianism , seemed to be converted in his later years to the socialist cause . |
| 3 | Mendelssohn 's C minor Trio is a highly original work , one of those which challenge the notion of his powers having declined in his later years . |
| 4 | But he was never heard to say what he thought ( if , indeed , he thought anything at all ) about this vast amount of random detail he must have accumulated in his later years . |
| 5 | We are thus faced in his later years by the paradox of a ruler who had spent his life in efforts to make his subjects prosperous and happy compelled to create a system of secret police and to hold down considerable parts of his territories by armed force . |