Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister may be almost as contemptuous of her wetter supporters as of outright opponents — the ‘ hard core ’ of enemies any leader , especially a ‘ conviction politician ’ , must acquire in nearly 15 years of leadership . |
| 2 | Here is perhaps the simplest and most dramatic example : the non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age . |
| 3 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide has a cohesive and integrated approach to the business , which is firmly rooted in over 230 years of brewing expertise . |
| 4 | I brought with me to New Zealand many paintings of my native Suffolk , much of the equipment used in over 30 years of painting in England , and all the learning achieved in the Suffolk fields . |
| 5 | Mr Bates became the Chief Officer in over 43 years of railway fire service — probably a record . |
| 6 | The students ( all over 18 years of age ) chose a topic of interest to themselves and of potential use to others The students ' aim was to produce a database and they were thus involved in skills of defining their information needs , planning methods of acquiring information , and assessing the information needs of the users of the database . |
| 7 | Where a summons has been served in accordance with Ord 7 , r 10(4) ( b ) by delivering the summons to a person not under sixteen years of age , if it is doubtful from the endorsement whether the summons will come to the knowledge of the defendant in sufficient time , notice of doubtful service ( N 221 ) is sent by the court . |
| 8 | under 30 but not under 25 years of age £125 |
| 9 | Under 25 years of age but not under 21 years of age £150 |
| 10 | under 25 but not under 21 years of age £150 |
| 11 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 12 | His eldest surviving son , Coleridge 's father , was born in 1719 and attended the Grammar School at Crediton ; but when bankruptcy brought the family low , the younger John , not quite sixteen years of age , ‘ walked off to seek his fortune ’ , taking with him no more than his father 's blessing and half a crown . |
| 13 | I was a trifle vexed at that and said , ‘ She is not yet thirteen years of age ! ’ |
| 14 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 15 | Kenny made his League debut for the Palace at Tranmere in May 1975 at just over 16 years of age and is the second youngest player ever to appear in the Palace first team . |
| 16 | Raising a glass to each other on their retirement from John Murray last month after a combined total of 88 years representing the company , many of them spent on the road , were left , John Harbour , who joined the company in 1944 , and Ron Church , with just over 40 years of service under his belt . |
| 17 | Still only 21 years of age in the summer of 1991 , Richard is one of the youngest players to complete their first century of Palace appearances . |
| 18 | In 1807 the British again returned to Madeira under the command of General Sir William Carr Beresford , who had already won a great reputation whilst still under forty years of age . |
| 19 | A recent analysis of advertisements on London Weekend Television showed that less than 20 per cent included anyone who was identifiably over 55 years of age ; only 5 per cent featured an older person in a major role . |
| 20 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 21 | She is a teacher of primary school kids and decides , probably rightly , that these two English boys are really only ten years of age and should be treated as such . |
| 22 | Richard Baxter , now almost seventy years of age , and very feeble , pleaded ‘ not guilty ’ to the charges laid against him . |
| 23 | sell out over 100 years of tradition for such a thing as mere money . |
| 24 | The Department of Transport finally granted permission for the scheme in February following over ten years of lobbying of Southwark Council by JS . |
| 25 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 26 | If two crops of wheat were grown two years in a row , afterwards the land would undergo four years of pasture and then perhaps two years of vegetable crops . |
| 27 | Addison Wesley er had a , yet again another year of progress . |