Example sentences of "in [adj -er] years [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belzebub was owned by Mr Olavi Pasanen and his wife Maria , who in later years bred many well-known dogs under the Heidenmoor prefix . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Fisher wrote a last school report which in later years became legendary : ‘ A boy with plenty of force of character who , in spite of certain uncouthnesses , has done good service on his own lines ’ . |
| 3 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 4 | Tom Parker left to manage Norwich , and in later years became assistant manager of his original club , Southampton . |
| 5 | TW3 , staffed by the likes of David Frost , William Rushton , Bernard Levin ( who in later years became a critic of ‘ permissiveness ’ ) , and a future bête-noir of Mrs Whitehouse , John Mortimer , was , in its short history , massively popular and controversial . |
| 6 | This blunted the edge of their potential impact , though the steady rise in factor prices to nearer market levels in later years did help propel the BEA into more adventurous policies to achieve capital economies and improved fuel efficiencies . |
| 7 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 8 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 9 | The outbreak of the Great War meant that young men from Edenderry as well as from other parts of the Circuit went to serve their country ; some went directly from Portadown and others who had emigrated in earlier years joined the armies of the Dominions , especially Canada . |