Example sentences of "in [adj] years she [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
2 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
3 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
4 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
5 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
6 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |