Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 2 | Chopin was only four when the second concerto had its premiere — listening to its long-spun lines , its confident forays into high registers and its complex first movement harmonic excursions , one might more readily place Field as a companion of the virtuoso 's old age . |
| 3 | However , there seems little reason for limiting the offence to cases involving children under 14 when the general age of consent to sexual activity stands at 16 . |
| 4 | A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates . |
| 5 | We must now go back to about 1920 when the whole subject could be described as pretty well bogged down . |
| 6 | The reinforced waves reflected by all the small crystallites produce diffraction rings , or haloes , which are sharply defined for highly crystalline materials and become increasingly diffuse when the amorphous content is high . |
| 7 | Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 . |
| 8 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 9 | For anyone retiring in the next few years , there are special rules if they were over 16 when the national insurance system began in 1948 . |