Example sentences of "in [adj] years he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 2 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 3 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 4 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 5 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 6 | He says in 20 years he 's not known a similar accident . |