Example sentences of "[pos pn] late years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fifties were not ripe for it , but all through their later years the question became more urgent : what is the place of women in the second half of the twentieth century ? |
| 2 | A number of her pupils , in their later years , formed the ‘ J. P. Young Club ’ as a mark of their respect for this remarkable lady . |
| 3 | Enjoyment of heterosexual activity does not need to diminish with age ; and , in fact , many women gain greater satisfaction from sex in their later years than formerly , when they were subject to the pressures and distractions of raising a family , or fear of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 4 | It means helping counsellees to recognize their personal needs , and how these can best be fulfilled in their later years . |
| 5 | Whilst social provision allows retired people to exist , there is little scope for them to grow or make full use of their later years . |
| 6 | As daughters earning good wages , they tended in their later years to become the sole breadwinners in households containing elderly mothers and , in a surprisingly large number of cases , handicapped or ailing sisters . |
| 7 | Crowe made known Lady Rose , who had been a friend of the Woolfs in their later years and was writing an elegant book on cats , and the fat and thin men , who were Vincent Hodgkiss , a philosopher , and Jeremy Norton , a poet . |
| 8 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 9 | It is to these directors many of whom the industry forgot in their later years that I wish to pay tribute . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 12 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Compared with her predecessors Elizabeth was poorly placed to raise loans , especially during her later years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In her later years a thyroid condition destroyed the figure that made her famous . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not in her later years , certainly not , no . |
| 19 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 20 | Her late years were spent in Richmond and at Wilsthorpe , under the patronage of the Countess of Exeter , probably the daughter-in-law of the well-known non-juror John Cecil , fifth Earl of Exeter . |
| 21 | He commissioned the most famous translation of the Bible ; was a patron of Shakespeare in his later years ; wrote a treatise on the harmful effects of smoking ; and , completely by accident , caused the revival of one of our most noble garden trees . |
| 22 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 23 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 24 | His marriage in 1914 to Florence Emily Dugdale , his companion and secretary for many years , and 40 years his junior , brought a much needed order and peace to his later years . |
| 25 | I was furious , and said the guy had certainly not caddied for Cotton when he won , and that in his later years Cotton had had several caddies . |
| 26 | Moreover , men such as the great ecclesiastical architect Abbot Suger of St Denis ( c. 1081–1151 ) , who devoted his later years to composing a laudatory life of the French monarch Louis VI ( 1081–1137 ) , effectively a second founder of the Capetian dynasty , wrote history with the object of producing favourable propaganda rather than documentary facts . |
| 27 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |
| 28 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 29 | Coleman , whose three surviving daughters sat opposite him , was noticed to be in some pain ( he suffered from gout in his later years ) . |
| 30 | Although in his later years , Einstein was to involve himself more and more in social and political matters — especially pacifism and Zionism — he was fundamentally a theoretical physicist through and through . |