Example sentences of "in later year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
2 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
3 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
4 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
5 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
6 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
7 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
8 | In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister . |
9 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
10 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
11 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
12 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
13 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
14 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
15 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
16 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |