Example sentences of "her [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to catch her fifty year old reflection in the metallic wall of the cabin . |
| 2 | Over her eleven year premiership the only substantial issue of penal policy in which Mrs Thatcher played a decisive part was the privatization of prisons and remand centres , and the contracting out of certain criminal justice services . |
| 3 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 4 | Mary Hope-Sykes is celebrating her 90th year by having the same number of saplings planted in her home town of Kirkbymoorside , North Yorkshire . |
| 5 | Toby imagined Penny as a girl of infinitely greater experience and sophistication than himself , though , in looking back on her four years at Bedford College and her half year of unemployment thereafter , Penny could only be struck by the slim amount of worldly knowledge gained , the fleeting , unsatisfactory nature of the relationships formed . |
| 6 | Later that evening the bodies of her daughter Margaret Godfrey , who was 54 , and her 22 year old grand-daughter Susan Godfrey were found at their home in Marston , Oxford . |
| 7 | Lady Diana Cooper ( then in her eighty-eighth year ) who attended the event , said in her inimitable way : ‘ Was n't that a mighty feast to set before a King ! ’ |
| 8 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 9 | ‘ Mme Verard was in her hundredth year or more when I was fortunate enough to take in mine the hand that proved the loyal instrument of God 's will for this pagan place and its people . |
| 10 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 11 | Paul 's donor was found by the Anthony Nolan Trust , a register of donors set up by Shirley Nolan when her 7 year old son died from a rare bone marrow disease before a donor could be found . |
| 12 | Susan Lilley lost her 7 year old son , Ian in the crash . |
| 13 | The two of them had been virtually inseparable — periods of separation coinciding with the respective presences of boy-friends ; even though Sheila had left university abruptly in her second year , hating the academic competitiveness . |
| 14 | 26 , had a variety of white-collar-jobs , now in her second year of training to be a State Registered Nurse . |
| 15 | During her second year , she met a first-year medical student , and became quite involved with him . |
| 16 | Now she is in her second year and is expected to become a Registered General Nurse ( RGN ) . |
| 17 | The Marcus night junior , though at the start of her second year , was on her first spell of nights . |
| 18 | Rachel was now in her second year , toddling about and growing sturdy of limb , and she had become very attached to her nurse . |
| 19 | JOHN SMITH , lecturer in the Law Department , warned Marian Jackson at the beginning of her second year that too much time spent with Dram Soc would prevent her from getting a first class degree . |
| 20 | In her second year , she met Edgar Lintot . |
| 21 | Fiona Mair , of Lerwick , who is commencing her second year of MB ChB studies in medicine and surgery at the University of Aberdeen ; |
| 22 | Bernadette Johnson , of Brae , who is entering her second year studies for a PhD degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow ; and |
| 23 | And she was going through and she knew them and er she was going into I it was her second year bio-chemistry exams on the bus and she 's got a bi a text book on bio-chemistry and she 's reading the introduction bit before you even get into proper bio-chemistry and Michael s look leant across and said , what on earth are you doing ? |
| 24 | She was now coming to the end of her second year , and only yesterday had been transferred from Bassett , the male surgical ward . |
| 25 | is in her second year at college and , between studying and working at Sainsbury 's she likes to enter cookery competitions . |
| 26 | Agnes E lived alone , had reached her ninetieth year and had retained her independence of mind . |
| 27 | The woman who died was Mrs Gillian Haynes , also of Pershore , who 'd gone to house to collect her 21 year old daughter Vicky . |
| 28 | Her dream is to make a movie musical , a multi-million celluloid spectacle , in which she can prove to the world that her three year apprenticeship is over . |
| 29 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 30 | Dr Goodall gave a sell-out evening lecture to over 150 people in the Ark Restaurant and showed slides of her 31 year long research study in Tanzania 's Gombe National park and of her work with the Jane Goodall Institute ( UK ) . |