Example sentences of "[adj] year old and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 3 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 4 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 5 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 9 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |