Example sentences of "in [det] years [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote .
2 In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 .
3 In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson .
4 In all years they included a series of national newspapers ; the Daily Mirror , The Times the News of the World the Sunday People and one local , the London Evening Standard .
5 How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still , intranced with admiration ( while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula ) , to hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy !
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