Example sentences of "during [pos pn] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 2 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 3 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 4 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 5 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 6 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |