Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object .
2 In view of Nietzsche 's subsequent adulation of Wagner , it is important to recognize that in these early years his predilections lay elsewhere .
3 In these earlier years he eschewed biography as a path to understanding .
4 External examiners ( to whom in these formative years we were heavily indebted ) spoke well of what they saw .
5 It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness .
6 Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston .
7 But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge .
8 In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine .
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