Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 2 | I have thought so through five years of opposition and 12 years on the Government side . |
| 3 | What is special about nut-cracking is that it is particularly difficult and energy-demanding , and an adult standard of performance is reached only after 10 years of practice . |
| 4 | A UDC would undermine the ability of the elected local councils to implement the 1976 Docklands Strategic Plan , which had been agreed only after many years of discussion and debate ( Leaders of the London Boroughs of Greenwich , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation . |
| 6 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 7 | THE case must be made again for judges to stand down at 70 years of age . |
| 8 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 9 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 10 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 11 | At 25 , young men and women want the rewards now , not at 65 years of age . |
| 12 | Close to 400 years of peace have left Switzerland with an enormous wealth of beautiful old buildings , most of which seem to be in the capital , Berne . |
| 13 | Margaret has n't looked back since and Marjorie ( as enthusiastic as ever at 80 years of age ) still teaches two classes each week . |
| 14 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 15 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 16 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 17 | One of the drawbacks of A level is that because it is an examination to be taken at a particular time , namely after two years of study in the sixth form ( there are exceptions to this , but such is the general rule ) it is taken by people who are at very different stages of development , of readiness for the examination , and , above all , of interest in the subject matter . |
| 18 | More than 1,100 HIV-positive patients are enrolled in five independent phase I trials and three independent phase II trials with gp160 with up to 4 years of follow-up . |
| 19 | Up to six years of cereal cash crops with a single ‘ root break ’ in the middle , followed by a two- or three-year ley is now typical : animals have practically disappeared from arable farms . |
| 20 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 21 | The payments are based on set amounts : £33.60 for a lone parent or a couple : £23.30 for each child aged 18 : £16.35 for each child aged 16 or 17 : £12.90 for each child aged 11 to 15 , and £7.30 for each one up to 10 years of age . |
| 22 | The payments are based on set amounts : £33.60 for a lone parent or a couple : £23.30 for each child aged 18 : £16.35 for each child aged 16 or 17 : £12.90 for each child aged 11 to 15 , and £7.30 for each one up to 10 years of age . |
| 23 | The payments are based on set amounts : £33.60 for a lone parent or a couple : £23.30 for each child aged 18 : £16.35 for each child aged 16 or 17 : £12.90 for each child aged 11 to 15 , and £7.30 for each one up to 10 years of age . |
| 24 | These recommend that a local child psychiatric team should be involved with all such individuals and their families , and that young people up to 14 years of age should be admitted to a paediatric ward , rather than a general medical or surgical ward . |
| 25 | Personal savings [ see p. 37379 ] were to be converted at a one-to-one rate up to ceilings of 2,000 Marks for children up to 14 years of age , 4,000 Marks for people aged 15-59 , and 6,000 Marks for those over 60 ; savings in excess of these ceilings would be converted at 2:1 , as would state companies ' debts and liabilities . |
| 26 | The system will allow the vessel , designed for up to 20 years of service , to weathervane around a turret near the bow while shuttle tankers collect cargoes to transport ashore . |
| 27 | Up to four adults can travel for £85 and children up to 15 years of age travel free . |
| 28 | Members of up to 15 years of age receive their own award-winning magazine , Bird Life , six times a year . |
| 29 | The 1992 RIBA Trustees Medal , endowed by Marley plc for the best architecture of its time , normally up to 25 years of age , anywhere in the world by a living British designer , was presented to Sir Denys Lasdun for the Royal College of Physicians , London . |
| 30 | Babywear : ( items for babies up to 2 years of age ) . |