Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth . |
| 2 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 3 | Population : 60.1 million ( 40% are under 15 years of age ) |
| 4 | Are under 40 years of age ; and |
| 5 | She must have been nearly forty years of age , tall , thin and plainly dressed . |
| 6 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 7 | Whilst we were still looking at the blaze , Marjorie Truckle ( Ernie 's sister ) , who would have been about thirteen years of age , came rushing across the field with a message from their mother — |
| 8 | While visiting Wilton Abbey to see his prospective bride , Count Alan saw another lady who must have been about thirty years of age . |
| 9 | They are not very long-lived : the oldest cows are about 17 years of age and the bulls perhaps 13 . |
| 10 | I am now 70 years of age and whilst my hair still grows quickly in length , it is getting thin on the scalp and it is still fine , flyaway and dry . |
| 11 | Please note that to be classed as an infant , in accordance with Air Navigation Article 34 , a child must be under 2 years of age on the date of their return flight . |
| 12 | I would then be about 5 years of age . |
| 13 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm almost thirty years of age ! |
| 15 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 16 | Additional requirements were that the patients should be over 18 years of age , of fixed abode , and that they should have a prior history of good compliance with treatment . |
| 17 | John Ryan MP claimed to have seen a policeman remove a woman 's glasses and then strike her on the head ; she had appeared , to him , to be over sixty years of age and a bystander . |
| 18 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 19 | Lone parents themselves are likely to be over 25 years of age — on average less than 10 per cent were younger . |
| 20 | Being only eighteen years of age and relatively unversed in matters of state , Queen Victoria was much influenced by the Prime Minister , Viscount Melbourne , who held that office from 1835 to 1851 . |
| 21 | The course consisted mainly of volunteers for ‘ hostilities only ’ , most of which were only 18 years of age . |
| 22 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 23 | In 1971 the Runnymede Trust noted that 90 per cent of black Britons were under 15 years of age . |
| 24 | Table 1 shows that only seven patients were under 60 years of age , and that 73 per cent of men and 85 per cent of women were older than 69 years . |
| 25 | Because of the division of principal carers into spouses and children it is meaningless to give their mean age : 56 per cent were under 65 years of age , and 22 per cent were 75 or over . |
| 26 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 27 | He was considerably younger than Jonadab , being about fifty years of age . |
| 28 | It was natural for the Girls to go out with men but Tiller was possessive and seemed to expect them to remain single until they were about thirty years of age , then quietly fade away . |
| 29 | Dale resigned on 20th December 1750 , being almost 70 years of age . |
| 30 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |