Example sentences of "in her [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Angela Carter I knew and admired in her final years is a real presence in this book . |
| 2 | This would be a useful feature if it were not for the fact that a certain amount of vaginal discharge is perfectly normal and natural for a woman in her reproductive years ; and what is more , this natural discharge is subject to a fair amount of variation depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle . |
| 3 | In her thirty-two years of office , she never accepted a salary . |
| 4 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 5 | Never having been more than ten miles from her parents , home in her nineteen years the prospect of a fifty-mile train journey seemed like an adventure and she would travel alone , but maybe she would meet some handsome young man ! |
| 6 | Now , in her prime years , she was treated with respect , deference and even a little awe . |
| 7 | She did not have much baggage with her , as most of her belongings , accumulated in her two years ' stay in New York , had been sent ahead by sea . |
| 8 | In her early years as Prime Minister she largely left the negotiations over Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ) and the EEC budget to the Foreign Office . |
| 9 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 10 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 11 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 12 | That meant ideas , understanding people , searching for motives ; he did n't want to change the world as Anna did and Constanza in her early years . |
| 13 | Only later on will the Queen be the focus of full attention rather in the way that Queen Victoria was in her latter years . |
| 14 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |
| 15 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 16 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 17 | The Brighton technology college course promised to examine if she was ‘ myth or monster ’ in her 11 years at No 10 . |
| 18 | When Hannah was young and in her formative years , this dichotomy was even more pronounced . |
| 19 | Zora Neale Hurston was lucky enough to grow up in Eatonville , Florida , a black town run by blacks , so that she was spared the experience of racism in her formative years suffered by most black Americans . |
| 20 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 21 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 22 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 23 | She saved up enough money to take a manicuring course and in 1958 got her diploma , thus achieving a certified skill for the first time in her forty-five years . |
| 24 | Even before the eighteenth century there existed various forms of development around the old Chiswick Parish Church of St. Nicholas , such as the first Elizabethan ‘ Burlington Arms ’ ; Vine House ; Pages Yard-Ferry House-Brampton House and the cottages in Fishermen 's Place , also fronting the river , Bedford House ( which included Eynham House ) , Said House and Cottages ; Thames View ; Lingard House ; Red Lion House ; Prospect Cottages also Walpole House , where Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemain , created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 , lived in her later years . |
| 25 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 26 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 27 | And er a very devout Christian who never went to er chapel like in her later years but she was , she was a good Christian lady . |
| 28 | In her later years a thyroid condition destroyed the figure that made her famous . |
| 29 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 30 | Not in her later years , certainly not , no . |