Example sentences of "[adj] year [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 2 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 5 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 6 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 7 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 8 | I was six years old and the scene was the dim and secluded scullery in my grandparents ' house . |
| 9 | A child 's first lessons occur when she or he is 6 or 7 years old when the ruwang gathers a group of boys and girls together to teach them ta'kwakomena ( consciousness , will , responsibility ) , or basically social morality . |
| 10 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 11 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 12 | Anna Ford is three years older than the man who will now feature constantly in her news bulletins , and her former rival Angela Rippon is 48 . |
| 13 | Graham Gooch , with whom Gower seems locked in a strange love-hate relationship , is three years older than the boy David . |
| 14 | ‘ It would seem that for too many years little or no research was done on TB and now we do n't seem to have the answers when the questions are being asked . |
| 15 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 16 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 17 | The Spinal Tap film may be over ten years old but the traits which it parodies still seem to be very much in evidence today . |
| 18 | Then , pointing to the Labrador , who had already arrived , Sophie said , ‘ She 's ten years old and the pet of a handicapped child . ’ |
| 19 | One of the bells is in fact 82 years older than the building . |
| 20 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 21 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 22 | The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl . |
| 23 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 24 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 25 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 26 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 27 | TWO OF THE YOUNGEST REFUGEES : THE BOY IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND THE GIRL SIX PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 28 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 29 | Abdul Shahid , a Bengali-speaking five year old and a beginner in English , wanted to show off his three sand pies lined up in order of size . |
| 30 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |