Example sentences of "in [adj -er] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social status , so quickly achieved , made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins . |
| 2 | In later years Bate also rented a house in Hampstead where he died 27 December 1847 . |
| 3 | Belzebub was owned by Mr Olavi Pasanen and his wife Maria , who in later years bred many well-known dogs under the Heidenmoor prefix . |
| 4 | Newman and Nichols , in a study of a 60–80-year-old group in North Carolina , confirmed this and noted , as had Kinsey , that the extent of sexual activity in later years depends far more on the intrinsic sexual drive of the individual than on relative age considerations . |
| 5 | The association of water conservation measures with improved administrative control was apparent from the earliest days of Masai administration , and though it became fashionable in later years to talk about ‘ anchoring ’ the Masai for development purposes , administrative convenience was always a powerful interest : ‘ the Masai have , in my view , two outstanding needs ’ , wrote the Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Province of Tanganyika in 1950 — ‘ water and discipline ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 8 | Tom Parker left to manage Norwich , and in later years became assistant manager of his original club , Southampton . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
| 11 | These mevleviyets were distinctly ad hominem ( though bother strictly , all three — kadiliks were in later years re-created mevleviyets ) and contrast with most subsequent creations , where the appointees were fully qualified to become holders of mevleviyets . |
| 12 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While Eugénie swam , the Emperor , in later years accompanied by his son , walked on the beach — like any bourgeois couple at the seaside . |
| 15 | A good performance in later years means the sacrifice of bloom in the first year from planting . |
| 16 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 17 | Next morning , from the Paseo de Gracias station , I took the first express to Zaragoza , passing through the small seaside town of Sitges , which was in later years to become a British hooligan holiday playground . |
| 18 | Obesity in later years leads to insulin resistance , and the functional β cell mass , programmed in leaner times , may then be unable to meet the rising demand for insulin . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Efforts in earlier years to raise money from the City had proved fruitless . |
| 22 | 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 . |