Example sentences of "in his [adj] years [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wealth in his latter years is problematic ; he lived in Bethnal Green , died intestate , and was buried in Kensington 6 July 1701 . |
| 2 | His custom in his latter years was to attend here at all on Sunday mornings when he would occasionally the sermon being preached by one of his curates or his nephew , Reverend . |
| 3 | His armies in his last years were partly feudal and partly mercenary , and his attempt to establish the principle of compulsory unpaid service had been decisively defeated . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But in this respect Anselm belonged to the past , and one of the chief symptoms of this in his later years is the determination with which , against all the interests and policy of successive popes after Gregory VII , he argued the case , and fought for the principle of the primatial authority of Canterbury throughout the whole of the British Isles . |
| 6 | He had a gift for friendship , and a wide range of acquaintances , but his close friends were few and in his later years were drawn from a small circle who shared his interest in the lives and books of medieval scholars . |
| 7 | The cruel semi-obscurity visited upon Angus Wilson in his declining years is ghastly to contemplate . |