Example sentences of "[adj] year [pos pn] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 2 | While acknowledging that Sarah seemed to be infatuated with George , her sister was so many years her junior that she still thought of her as a child and dismissed her obvious affection for George as innocent admiration . |
| 3 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 4 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 5 | Last year my husband and I visited the Aquarium Vannes Southern Brittany . |