Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With pupils in lower secondary years their enjoyment of pretence is not yet impaired by age . |
| 2 | In view of Nietzsche 's subsequent adulation of Wagner , it is important to recognize that in these early years his predilections lay elsewhere . |
| 3 | External examiners ( to whom in these formative years we were heavily indebted ) spoke well of what they saw . |
| 4 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 5 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |