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

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1 Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on .
2 Their best chance therefore of becoming familiar with quoted speech in their preschool years is through hearing dialogue in stories read aloud .
3 There is also evidence that children who show food sensitivity in their early years are more likely to develop other health problems later , often continuing — or reappearing — in their adult lives .
4 For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz .
5 In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned .
6 The Angela Carter I knew and admired in her final years is a real presence in this book .
7 The Midland Wagon Company 's influence on the BCR in its early years was very strong .
8 One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah .
9 The cruel semi-obscurity visited upon Angus Wilson in his declining years is ghastly to contemplate .
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