Example sentences of "[num] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 500 turbulent years ’ in another epic . |
| 2 | We celebrate 70 fabulous years of GH , congratulate The Queen on 40 glorious years and pledge with Princess Anne to make this a successful year for our charity , Victim Support |
| 3 | My Lord by way of facts the first named plaintiff Mr is now er fifty eight years of age and he and his wife live in Brentwood er both are named as plaintiffs because their joint monies were expended in the purchase of the , this business and they were both parties to the purchase erm but it is clear that Mr in fact did all the negotiations for the purchase and the planning and the running of this business and he is er the prime witness on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 4 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
| 5 | Mind you , I suppose it 's better than being fifty odd years older int it ? |
| 6 | It 's only fifty old years old . |
| 7 | A multichannel spectrum analyser , with the capability of scanning 10,000,000 frequencies simultaneously in the microwave portion of the spectrum , would work in tandem with some of the world 's largest radio telescopes in a targeted survey of solar type stars within 75 light years ' distance . |
| 8 | On the standard picture , this wave rotates around the Galaxy ; and the solar System , orbiting the centre of the Galaxy at-a distance of about 32 500 light years ( 10 kiloparsecs ) , repeatedly passes through the density wave . |
| 9 | But he did find sodium absorption in a star 1100 light years from the Sun , and in stars that were more distant than this . |
| 10 | When the list reached Buckingham Palace the Queen found herself almost as impotent as George V fifty years earlier . |
| 11 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |
| 12 | Two deep lines down her forehead and the complete absence of make up made her look older than her probable forty odd years . |
| 13 | and er I managed to get er do forty odd years and erm now I 'm quite happy on the pension that they gave me . |
| 14 | actually but Well when we came in forty odd forty odd years ago it was twenty three and six a week . |
| 15 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 16 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 17 | Forty eight years old , she does n't look it she does n't sound it looking in good and sounding as good and great as ever . |
| 18 | Forty eight years after the war , he still believes the Japanese have a debt to pay . |
| 19 | Forty eight years after the war , he still believes the Japanese have a debt to pay . |
| 20 | On one television so they 're forty eight years old and they 've never been . |
| 21 | Both Dorothea 's discomforting sense of an almost impassable gulf dividing rich and poor and their peculiar confidence in the building of cottages are slight anachronisms in the early 1830s ; by the 1870s they are pervasive assumptions , indicating that , in the forty intervening years , attitudes to the poor and their houses had undergone a radical change . |
| 22 | An increasing dryness towards the end of the previous period had allowed forest to spread over most of the peat areas , but this in turn was interrupted in the sub-Boreal period , 5 000 to 2 800 years ago , by a widespread but shallow marine transgression . |
| 23 | Late-glacial vegetational history ( 13,500 -10,000 years B.P. ) |
| 24 | for forty six years ! |
| 25 | Er fort er forty six next , about forty six years dear |
| 26 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 27 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 28 | He was about forty three years old and living at home and his mother was like well wrap up warm now |
| 29 | Mr Clinton , too , is the candidate of ‘ change ’ , of anti-boredom , after 12 Republican years in the White House . |
| 30 | The company made about 50 cars in its first year of production , which rose to 150 by the end of the 1970s and reached a peak of 800 three years ago . |