Example sentences of "in [det] years [pers pn] " 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 remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson .
3 In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate .
4 In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament .
5 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 .
6 In these years he often changed his address in the East End of London .
7 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 .
8 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 !
9 In those years it is the sudden traumatic experience which may be the spark to engage fierce enthusiasms in their educational development .
10 Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois .
11 ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself .
12 In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release .
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