Example sentences of "in [pron] formative years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that could happen to me now , in the way that it did in my formative years . |
| 2 | In my formative years , Sam was my idol . |
| 3 | Many are putting their health at risk in their formative years , Dr Andrew Hill , a chartered psychologist at the Academic Unit of Psychiatry , Leeds University , says in a study of nearly 400 nine-year-olds . |
| 4 | The logic of early education is that if mentally handicapped children are given stimulation in their formative years , almost from the moment of birth , difficult behavioural problems can be avoided , and considerable academic advancements can be made . |
| 5 | Members of groups , especially those in their formative years , find themselves thrown into unnaturally close contact with one another , squashed together in the backs of uncomfortable vans night after night , obliged to eat , live and even sleep together for much of their time . |
| 6 | No-one except those who are wilfully blind to the nature of our proceedings can possibly spell out of the Bill any condonation whatever of homosexual conduct which can affect young people in their formative years . |
| 7 | This reflects the influence of cultural and social factors as it was totally unacceptable for women to smoke when these women were in their formative years in the interwar period . |
| 8 | It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years . |
| 9 | How many smokers who were hooked when 12 , 13 , or 14 , in their formative years , are grateful for having been subjected to the wiles of the tobacco and advertising industries ? |
| 10 | As one analyst puts it , " Some of the Labour loyalty induced in their formative years will have lasted until today . " |
| 11 | When Hannah was young and in her formative years , this dichotomy was even more pronounced . |
| 12 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 13 | The understanding of recovery as a processes is still in its formative years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 16 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 17 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 18 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 19 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |