Example sentences of "[pos pn] middle years " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main misadventures on the roads came into my mind when it was time to choose a horse for happy hacking in my middle years . |
| 2 | But it was not painless : he had been , after all , my main emotional support through my middle years in this country , however flawed . |
| 3 | By its middle years the introduction of a number of relatively minor improvements , such as cartridges and iron ramrods , had allowed this rate of fire to be trebled in the most efficient European armies . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the eighteenth century domestic exports accounted for around 7 – 8 per cent of national output , through its middle years perhaps 10 or 12 per cent and at its close peaking around 17 per cent . |
| 5 | The most important English writer of the seventeenth century on international law still thought in its middle years that " the reception of ambassadors further requires that hospitality should be provided befitting their rank , and necessaries supplied to them " , and practice varied considerably between different states . |
| 6 | And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years . |
| 7 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 8 | They may start out their adult life living alone , spend some of their middle years living alone , or end their days living alone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These were minds so naturally paced to the business of authorship that writing , from their middle years , must have absorbed their waking hours , their conversations and their dreams . |
| 11 | Men , especially poor men , had a significantly higher death rate than women in their middle years . |
| 12 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 13 | It was the unfortunate experience of the age-groups best represented in the sample to pass their middle years during some of the blackest periods of the twentieth century . |
| 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 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |
| 17 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 18 | For example , an ex gratia payment made to a man moving to further full-time employment in his middle years will obviously not be made ‘ on or in anticipation of retirement ’ . |
| 19 | For such a successful man in his middle years , his reliance on the young army officer was touching . |
| 20 | Early works , like the tomb of Ilaria or the Trenta altar , display an uncanny ability to keep Gothic and Renaissance elements in balance , but Jacopo della Quercia 's gifts found a perfect statement in relief sculpture , from the Fonte Gaia of his middle years to the main portal of San Petronio , on which he worked intermittently from 1425 until his death in 1438 . |
| 21 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 22 | Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . |
| 23 | Like his namesake , playfully described as ‘ the wickedest man in London ’ , ‘ Quex ’ had , until his middle years , a stormy private life . |
| 24 | Davide skipped the list of signatories and went on : ‘ The late Don Antonio 's interest in the thought and teachings of Pythagoras led him , the family allege , into heresy , and ultimately in his last days , into dementia praecox , aggravated by the debilitating epilepsy from which he had suffered since his middle years . |
| 25 | People say that as you grow older what becomes important to you are the events of your distant past , of your childhood rather than of your middle years . |