Example sentences of "earlier years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though events have revealed no single doctrine by which all issues of privilege arising between Parliament and the courts may be resolved , many of the problems of earlier years which are dealt with above have been substantially solved . |
| 2 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 3 | In his earlier years he could counsel priests to celibacy and doubters to Catholic dogma with almost papal infallibility , untroubled by a fiance 's feelings or a questioner 's uncertainties . |
| 4 | In these earlier years he eschewed biography as a path to understanding . |
| 5 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |
| 6 | In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval . |