Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] years [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Margaret had eight sons and one daughter , and in their early years lived at Paynes Place , Bushley . |
| 2 | All the ambitions and aspirations which had animated the Criterion in its first years had either been abandoned or destroyed . |
| 3 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 4 | The success of PRL in its early years led to the expansion of its activities , with the construction of pilot plant and production facilities enabling the company to offer a complete service from laboratory research , through pilot plant development and the production of intermediate quantities of material to large-scale commercial manufacture . |
| 5 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 6 | But precisely because Edward I could not take their consent for granted and in his later years preferred to tap the clergy 's wealth instead by mandatory papal levies , the survival and role of an independent clerical body for the gathering of taxation remained uncertain at his death . |
| 7 | I do n't think he did anything in his later years did he ? |