Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my office the majority of female employees are under 25 and , at 50 , I am a good 10 years older than any other woman in the building . |
| 2 | I am a twenty seven year old woman who ca n't swim . |
| 3 | I now have a regular exercise programme which I enjoy and I am a trim one-and-a-half stones lighter which makes all the difference to how I feel about myself " . |
| 4 | Er I 'm a thirty four year old accountant work and I work for a a pi |
| 5 | I 'm divorced forty ye , I 'm a divorced forty year old woman with two grown up children and I am in a terrible situation . |
| 6 | Whe , the day I got married I was a thirty two A A |
| 7 | I was a thirty two A. |
| 8 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 9 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 10 | But he actually lives in Ascot , which is a mere four miles away . ’ |
| 11 | Aussie golf star Greg Norman has the course record of 63 , which is a mere four shots better than Geoff 's performance over the course . |
| 12 | She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania . |
| 13 | Other binaries have shorter periods ; for example 80 years in the case of the brilliant southern Alpha Centauri , which is a mere 4.3 light-years away from us . |
| 14 | Which is a four hundred yards and it was an inset , the top hard seam was ninety yards lower down at the four hundred and ninety yards to the And the High Hazel used to have an inset . |
| 15 | Watersports are available on the sandy beach which is an easy 160 metre walk from the hotel . |
| 16 | Worse come to the worse , she brought the Headmaster in with his cane and he was er like the one in the stories , skilled to rule , but anyway his most proficiency was wielding this cane , which was a good three foot long . |
| 17 | Er fairly recently we were asked to tender for erm a new station at Rickmansworth for Crossrail and one of the prerequisites of that job , er which was a ten million pound project , er one of the prerequisites of that job , was that we should either be certificated or at least have a quality assurance erm system in place . |
| 18 | Who are the other two people ? |
| 19 | If you are newcomer to spreadsheets then you may find Excel easier to deal with but if you are an experienced 123 user then the latest version from Lotus is likely to be the only choice . |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , ’ it said with relish , ‘ you think you 'll forget about your precious Lucy just because you 're a few hundred miles away ? |
| 21 | So that at the end of the five years , assuming you 've paid the maximum stake at seven and a half percent , you would , otherwise you would receive the nine thousand back of course , and at that rate you would receive two six seven one and that will include , if you 're a twenty five percent payer , six hundred and sixty seven that you would have otherwise lost in , that would have gone out in tax . |
| 22 | Actually they do work well , I mean there is , there is one scenario where it does work well , if you 're elderly , and you 're in good health , then annuities are , are pretty good value because they look on their actuarial charts , if you 're an eighty eight year old , and er make an assessment and say well , for every ten thousand you give us , we 'll give thirteen thousand a year . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's a '37 500 cc Sloper , ’ came the reply , ‘ a fine machine , not many around these parts . ’ |
| 24 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 25 | There might not seem to be anything unusual about this group of people until someone who 's a mere five footer joins the line-up . |
| 26 | She was a willowy five feet , five inches , but he had to be over six feet . |
| 27 | She was a typical Fifties phenomenon , a celebrity contrived out of sex appeal and publicity alone , both of them rather naive and innocent by the standards of subsequent hype and hoop-la . |
| 28 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 29 | She was a mere twelve years his junior . |
| 30 | She was tall , too , inches taller than Juliet , who was a petite five feet three inches . |