It was about half a century since we last met, and we were now both in our declining years.
In the author's opinion, this poem opened up a panorama first from the paean for human childhood, then to the middle-age meditation and inquiry, and finally to the loneliness in the declining years.
He had to spend his declining years in prison.
I found my new life to be a kind of metaphor for my declining years-one might say a slow dying.
circumstances in one's declining years
And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years.
To be in one's declining years
Mr Fyodorov’s job in the declining years of the Soviet Union had included monitoring the world economy by reading the Financial Times.
Youth will soon be gone never to return. And it will be too late for you to go into scholarship when in your declining years.
As for me, I didn't think that the life was such kind of stereotype, I thought it was worth praising, rich in pleasure, even if I were in declining years.
Tall, handsome and dignified, he cut an imposing figure, even in his declining years.
He enjoyed writing his memoirs in his declining years.