Example sentences of "his later years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He commissioned the most famous translation of the Bible ; was a patron of Shakespeare in his later years ; wrote a treatise on the harmful effects of smoking ; and , completely by accident , caused the revival of one of our most noble garden trees . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 4 | His marriage in 1914 to Florence Emily Dugdale , his companion and secretary for many years , and 40 years his junior , brought a much needed order and peace to his later years . |
| 5 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
| 6 | Moreover , men such as the great ecclesiastical architect Abbot Suger of St Denis ( c. 1081–1151 ) , who devoted his later years to composing a laudatory life of the French monarch Louis VI ( 1081–1137 ) , effectively a second founder of the Capetian dynasty , wrote history with the object of producing favourable propaganda rather than documentary facts . |
| 7 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |
| 8 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 9 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |
| 10 | Although in his later years , Einstein was to involve himself more and more in social and political matters — especially pacifism and Zionism — he was fundamentally a theoretical physicist through and through . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 13 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 14 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 15 | In his later years there was a tendency to treat Wordsworth as a venerable sage : there is too much sentimental piety about some descriptions , while others give the impression of a strange , and slightly dotty , old man of the mountains . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his later years Bunyan spent much of his time visiting and overseeing nearby congregations , whilst his son worked the forge . |
| 18 | In his later years Ken 's health was poor . |
| 19 | Difficult , at this distance , to shut out of mind photographs of Waugh in his later years in his modest country house , forever trying to look like a country gentleman and forever ( as a friend once remarked ) looking like a bookie . |
| 20 | The evidence for these remarks is to be found in a series of letters which are among the most revealing of his later years . |
| 21 | Whether , and how far , he changed in his later years must be examined in the next chapter . |
| 22 | His violent defence of the primacy , though it was contrary to all the forward-looking governmental ideals and interests of the Church as a whole during his later years , is his nearest approach to a consistent political policy as archbishop . |
| 23 | But in this respect Anselm belonged to the past , and one of the chief symptoms of this in his later years is the determination with which , against all the interests and policy of successive popes after Gregory VII , he argued the case , and fought for the principle of the primatial authority of Canterbury throughout the whole of the British Isles . |
| 24 | Business interests in the music industry occupied his later years . |
| 25 | Mill , rooted in positivism and utilitarianism , seemed to be converted in his later years to the socialist cause . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He spent much of his later years experimenting in his Heathfield workshop in Birmingham , one of his main interests being in designing a machine to copy sculptured heads . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In his later years , he was also to suffer from persistent bronchial trouble and emphysema exacerbated by his smoking . |
| 30 | In his early drawings it was the delicacy of line that caught my attention ; there is the same exquisite feeling in many of the watercolours that he painted in his later years . |