Example sentences of "in [adj -er] years the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later years the Company , which now incorporated the original Society , became a registered Charity . |
| 2 | In fact , maintenance was carried out there and in later years the basement was used as a rifle range for the staff and brass bands used to rehearse there for competitions at the Crystal Palace . |
| 3 | In later years the villagers have celebrated Queen Elizabeth 's Silver Jubilee , and the wedding of Prince Charles . |
| 4 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 5 | I have rarely missed an issue since : Thursday was always ‘ NME day ’ for this Dublin teenager , though in later years the paper was frequently frustrating in its often flippant assessment and misunderstanding of perfectly good WORK , including some of my own . |
| 6 | In later years the truth came out how two of the tailors apprentices had spent their wages on the Saturday night |
| 7 | In later years the events of 5 October were to be polished into simplified and incompatible propaganda versions ; it has to be stressed that the whole affair was a series of blunders and the violence resulted from a breakdown of control by the leaders of the march and the controllers of the police , and not from any pre-existing plan . |
| 8 | However the industrial basis for syndicalism was lying in ruins as a result of the Depression and in later years the unions strongly opposed the idea of industrial action for political ends . |
| 9 | In later years the shadow of the Counter-Reformation overcast his work with a new seriousness which found its most impressive expression in the Sixth Book of six-part madrigals ( 1595 ) with ‘ Se quel dolor ’ and the Ninth Book of five-part madrigals ( 1599 ) with ‘ Solo e pensoso ’ . |
| 10 | In later years the argument was grudgingly admitted to have some force : one correspondent to the STC agreed that " 50 per cent of the London and provincial work would be lost to Edinburgh and would never have been gained but for the employment of female labour " . |
| 11 | In later years the initiative passed to the political wing of the Party , although decisions were , of course , ultimately decided by the union vote . |
| 12 | Further , in earlier years the branch had attempted to extend its WEA social and educational activity into surrounding villages and it is possible that the branch had pressed the District for the appointment of a resident tutor in East Suffolk — although the documentary evidence on this point is somewhat unclear . |