Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is perhaps the simplest and most dramatic example : the non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter , now almost seventy years of age , and very feeble , pleaded ‘ not guilty ’ to the charges laid against him . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport finally granted permission for the scheme in February following over ten years of lobbying of Southwark Council by JS . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Addison Wesley er had a , yet again another year of progress . |