Example sentences of "in his [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dom Pérignon grew blind in his final years but this did not prevent — it rather enhanced — his passion for the art of winemaking . |
| 3 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 4 | In his early years as Archbishop he succeeded in obtaining the appointment of a number of Reformers as bishops . |
| 5 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 6 | In his four years as DMA director , Mr Brettell had been instrumental in planning the facility , and helped raise the $55 million to build and endow it . |
| 7 | In his 14 years as president , both tennis in general and the ITF in particular have undergone enormous development and Mr Chatrier can take much of the credit for the changes which have taken place . |
| 8 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister of Singapore , Lee Kuan Yew , visited China on Oct. 16-24 , his fifth such visit in his 31 years as Premier . |