Example sentences of "his formative years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
| 2 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 3 | A novel way for you to explore the area where Cook spent his formative years . |
| 4 | Earlier in his racing career , the under-funded Hill spent most of his formative years riding motor bikes long before his mother Bette decided she had had enough of the dangers of two-wheel road racing . |
| 5 | Luke , whose big screen debut Buffy The Vampire Slayer is currently showing in British cinemas , escaped the emotional realities of his formative years by making a fool of himself . |
| 6 | Arthur Whitten-Brown , the navigator , who by a twist of fate spent his formative years living in Chorlton , Manchester , selected and installed all the instruments . |
| 7 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
| 8 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 9 | Kim obtained experience in his formative years in cooperating with the Chinese and with the Russians ; it is relevant to note he had no experience of working with the communists in Korea . |
| 10 | Vuk Karadžić continued the work of Dositej , whose writings had influenced the younger man during his formative years . |
| 11 | You can not deny a priori that he had some sort of sincere ideological outlook in his formative years . |
| 12 | Emily went pink , reflecting that if she 'd had charge of this youth in his formative years , things might have been different . |
| 13 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
| 14 | After spending his formative years in junior and middle management with the Leisure Services Department of Wirral Borough Council , his first senior management position was as Operations Manager for a leisure park on the site of Liverpool 's International Garden Festival . |