Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] years and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 2 | Television can be a positive influence : it may ( in moderation ) give brighter children a faster start in their pre-school years and make the dull children a little more knowledgeable about the world . |
| 3 | Crowe made known Lady Rose , who had been a friend of the Woolfs in their later years and was writing an elegant book on cats , and the fat and thin men , who were Vincent Hodgkiss , a philosopher , and Jeremy Norton , a poet . |
| 4 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 5 | Mabel was in the habit of throwing missiles at the Bargees and lightermen in her earlier years and one day she had been aiming coke at a local lighterman , Ben Johnson . |
| 6 | The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , the club 's most successful time was in its early years and we 'd like to re-create that . |
| 8 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 9 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
| 10 | This is John Fisher , who is remembered for his disputes in his latter years and finally his execution in London by order of Henry VIII . |
| 11 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 12 | Prose became his main medium of literary expression in his later years and among his more important works are the autobiographical Hen Atgofion ( 1936 ) , his biography of Owen Morgan Edwards ( 1937 ) , both of which are classics of Welsh prose literature , and Y Tro Olaf ( 1939 ) . |
| 13 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |