Example sentences of "in their [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |
| 2 | It gave him even more pleasure in their latter years to see his parents ' joy at their children 's happiness , Peter 's included . |
| 3 | How can the Conservatives make such eloquent speeches about the Royal Navy when , in their 13 years in office , they have , according to their own planning , halved that part of its fleet ? |
| 4 | The graduate courses are targeted at students in their first years at university , and the Masters at post-graduates or professionals with experience . |
| 5 | At whatever level we are working ( be it with children in their first years in school , or with adults ) the first engagement with the work comes through dramatic tension of some kind . |
| 6 | Drama with children in their first years of school differs from drama with older children only in content and organisation , not in basic approaches to the subject . |
| 7 | In their 41 years there , the Kitchings made more impact , as for decades the buildings were known as Kitching 's Corner . |
| 8 | Their best chance therefore of becoming familiar with quoted speech in their preschool years is through hearing dialogue in stories read aloud . |
| 9 | And it is well known that children who have been read to in their preschool years have a general advantage when the learning of reading begins . |
| 10 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 11 | In their early years both agencies tended to concentrate on trying to boost employment opportunities by encouraging industries to move into their areas . |
| 12 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 13 | Those who have not experienced some type of long-term , warm , trusting relationship in their early years often lack self-confidence and may find it difficult to communicate effectively with other people . |
| 14 | In much the same vein , one LEA considered recently a draft of a newsletter to parents outlining the implication of those rights so far as a child 's education in their early years was concerned . |
| 15 | Recently tips have been shaped as they are made , so their later landscaping is easier and they are less intrusive in their early years . |
| 16 | There is also evidence that children who show food sensitivity in their early years are more likely to develop other health problems later , often continuing — or reappearing — in their adult lives . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 18 | This ‘ tradition ’ is much more recent , yet the ideas have been pervasive : that organised , structured opportunities for ‘ disadvantaged ’ children in their early years can combat or offset the allegedly depriving effects of a poor ( and therefore , by definition , unstimulating ! ) home . |
| 19 | Although apprentices wasted a lot of time in their early years , most of them had picked up enough of the trade to be useful typesetters long before the seven years were up . |
| 20 | There is a real danger that trainees who in their early years depend too much on the laryngeal mask will find themselves insufficiently experienced in this vital aptitude . |
| 21 | For it was the people of the three original founding cantons , Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden , who took the first steps to free themselves from external domination and start what was to become an independent confederation of communities , unified in a unique fashion , which in their early years were mostly called simply the Confederates but later became known as Schweizer after the name of one of the original component areas , Schwyz . |
| 22 | John and Margaret had eight sons and one daughter , and in their early years lived at Paynes Place , Bushley . |
| 23 | This new award will provide an alternative to the existing HNC in Working with Children in Their Early Years . |
| 24 | While I do not regret spending the time with my children in their early years , I feel that the medical world is not the place for people trying to combine a family and career . ’ |
| 25 | Television can be a positive influence : it may ( in moderation ) give brighter children a faster start in their pre-school years and make the dull children a little more knowledgeable about the world . |
| 26 | The leaders of the British jazz-funk explosion in the early '80s had ten hit albums in their 11 years with Polydor and their old contract still had another six albums to run . |
| 27 | And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years . |
| 28 | Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass . |
| 29 | Men , especially poor men , had a significantly higher death rate than women in their middle years . |
| 30 | David and Gary are in their final years , and playing at Queen 's makes sense from an academic point of view . |