Example sentences of "of [pron] [num ord] birthday " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |
| 2 | I HAVE JUST celebrated , or , rather , I have just had drawn to my attention , the occasion of my 64th birthday . |
| 3 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
| 4 | ‘ May I thank all the Medau girls for adding to the pleasure of my 90th birthday by sending a gorgeous card signed by so many and good wishes . |
| 5 | I sometimes think that this , the year of my sixth birthday was the happiest of my life . |
| 6 | Members had organised sponsored walks , lunches and other events to raise the money and had planted an oak tree at Kings Pond to mark the achievement , and recognition of their 25th birthday . |
| 7 | A weekend in May and the fields full of blossom and the twins a little short of their third birthday . |
| 8 | Losing the William Webb Ellis Cup was bed enough for the NZRFU on the eve of its 100th birthday . |
| 9 | Although East Germany managed to staunch the flow on the eve of its 40th birthday , observers said it was still in danger of bleeding slowly to death , or of suffering convulsions brought on by repression on its streets . |
| 10 | Do keep the press informed of events which provide photo opportunities — Easter bonnet parade , pancake race , the school 's celebration of its 50th birthday etc . |
| 11 | But on the occasion of its fortieth birthday two years ago , Herbert Read 's founding description of the ICA as an ‘ adult play-centre … a source of vitality and daring experiment ’ was leapt upon even by the quality press as the founding weakness in its independent constitution . |
| 12 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 13 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 14 | On the eve of her seventh birthday , Nanny told Artemis that she had been invited downstairs that very afternoon to take tea with her father . |
| 15 | Wightman pounced as the girl walked alone late at night on the eve of her 17th birthday . |
| 16 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 17 | EATON class members presented with flowers and a garden token to celebrate the occasion of her 80th birthday . |
| 18 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 19 | Fittipaldi was two months short of his 24th birthday at the time . |
| 20 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 21 | He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday , a somewhat elderly junior minister . |
| 22 | It was here in Chambers Street that Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were living — probably , we may guess , as guests of brother Thomas at no. 11 — when they took their little son for baptism at St Mary Whitechapel in the March of 1809 , a few days short of his first birthday . |
| 23 | Otsuka was awarded his tenth dan by the brother of the emperor of Japan , and until his death in 1982 , just four months short of his 90th birthday , he was the world 's oldest practising karateka . |
| 24 | But the 150th anniversary of Mozart 's death in 1941 brought only eulogies of the standard old-fashioned kind ( as well as some Nazi-inspired pan-Germanic accretions ) , and Mozart was still on his ornamental pedestal for the commemoration of his 200th birthday in 1956 . |
| 25 | The Ekeko is a young god , a year short of his 200th birthday . |
| 26 | Just short of his 33rd birthday , Superbrat had transformed himself into Supermac . |
| 27 | His family were encouraged by signs of a recovery on Friday , but at three o'clock the next morning , 6 January , 1934 , two weeks short of his fifty-sixth birthday , Herbert Chapman died . |
| 28 | SADLER 'S WELLS Royal Ballet open their Christmas season at the Wells next Tuesday with a programme of ballets by Kenneth MacMillan which continue the celebrations of his 60th birthday . |
| 29 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 30 | A few days short of his fifteenth birthday , Gert attempted suicide , cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window . |