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Example sentences for "late years"

  • The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop of late years, and its time-honored walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.

  • This charming product of the Western world has come into great prominence of late years in literature and in foreign life, and has attained a notoriety flattering or otherwise to the national pride.

  • The Conservative party of late years, principally because it has the simple task of holding back, has been better able to define its lines and preserve a compact organization.

  • Of late years we have seen wonderful changes in female manners.

  • Of late years he had, in real life, seen striking instances of the treachery of courtiers, and had felt some symptoms of insecurity in the smile of princes.

  • I am afraid, indeed, that they can; for of late years we have heard more of sentiment than of principles; more of the rights of woman than of her duties.

  • Of late years he had been doomed to close confinement in a capital city; but all his tastes were rural, and, as he said, he feared he should expose himself to the ridicule Dr.

  • Speculation has of late years prevailed to a great extent in the public lands.

  • Besides, a practice has grown up of late years to legislate in appropriation bills at the last hours of the session on new and important subjects.

  • I am very well, thank Heaven; indeed, my health has been much better of late years: Beaufort Court agrees with me so well!

  • Though I had seen little of him, especially of late years, his death sensibly affected me; but I have at least the consolation of thinking that there is nothing now to prevent my doing justice to you.

  • Of late years, as advancing age made time more heavy, he had resumed the resource, and with all his former good luck.

  • We have had but little experience of the might of God amongst us of late years, and we need not wonder at it.

  • That has been so thoroughly preached and practised of late years that we much need the other side to be put.

  • One of the most important duties undertaken by accountants is the audit of accounts, and this duty has, of late years, been widely extended.

  • German traders and missionaries had been particularly active of late years on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.

  • No fresh discoveries of minerals likely to be of hich economic value to Afghanistan have been made of late years.

  • Of late years he gave up the tall hat even in London, and wore a soft black one in winter, and a big straw hat in summer.

  • Of late years I think he did not keep to any fixed number of turns, but took as many as he felt strength for.

  • He became much tired in the evenings, especially of late years, when he left the drawing-room about ten, going to bed at half-past ten.

  • The Spot which I would here endeavour to clear them of, is that Party-Rage which of late Years is very much crept into their Conversation.

  • This Art of Wit is well enough, when confined to one Day in a Twelvemonth; but there is an ingenious Tribe of Men sprung up of late Years, who are for making April Fools every Day in the Year.

  • All these things have been given of late years to art, and parents and guardians need no longer have any fear for those confided to their charge: the art of painting has been recognised as a profession!

  • The artistic rivalry of the two cities has become obvious of late years.

  • The laws and rules in this respect have not been very severely enforced of late years; yet one never sees even now a Corean male walking about the streets after dark.

  • Of late years, I believe, a new drilling-ground has been selected by the foreign military instructors, which explains why the pavilion has been allowed to rot and tumble down.

  • This "chance" was when my sister was attacked with cholera once, in the first panic caused by it, of late years.

  • These are of a curiously simple description, and are due chiefly to the investigations of late years.

  • Very seldom, of late years; formerly we were occasionally troubled in that way.

  • Dudley Venner owned that he had heard little or nothing of him of late years.

  • The father and daughter had been living quietly, and there could not be a doubt that the property which came through the Dudleys must have largely increased of late years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boundary line; destroy slavery; injured tone; late afternoon; late autumn; late been; late friend; late home; late hour; late hours; late summer; late years; lately been; later addition; later editions; later hand; later letter; later life; later page; later period; later work; later works; lateral pressure; military band; other subjects; still kept