Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 2 | In their earlier years schoolwork had been a haven . |
| 3 | This was only the second or third time in its five years existence that the company had bought a car . |
| 4 | In its early years Scrutiny was a fine embodiment of the spirit of criticism , literary and cultural . |
| 5 | In its last years Aurae Phiala surely did mount a watch every night . |
| 6 | In his latter years Tilden also studied the specific heat of metals over a wide range of temperatures , and the history of chemistry . |
| 7 | In his final years Clanvow participated in the revival of crusading activity in Europe and north Africa . |
| 8 | In his early years Bill was a great competition golfer , fixing and playing in Artisan Matches of up to 18 a side , his opponent being the other Club 's Professional . |
| 9 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
| 10 | In his early years John the younger saw active service abroad . |
| 11 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
| 12 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
| 13 | In his last years Monet stumbled upon the exquisite notion that colour in itself could become the first subject for his art ; painting has never looked back/ |
| 14 | In his last years John Shakespeare was a happy man . |
| 15 | In his wildest years Frank McAvennie , a sweeper turned striker , managed to overcome his humble origins , dye his hair blond and become one of London 's disco glitterati . |
| 16 | In his later years Bunyan spent much of his time visiting and overseeing nearby congregations , whilst his son worked the forge . |
| 17 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 18 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
| 19 | In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life . |
| 20 | In his later years Ken 's health was poor . |
| 21 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |