Example sentences of "year [adj] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother thought it was a liability , ie , it would have to be dry-cleaned , but I was twelve years old and had a Ph.D . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S typical executive is male , 44 years old and has a salary of £30,355 ( including £4,826 in bonus pay ) , according to a comprehensive annual survey conducted by P-E Inbucon , writes Sarah Hogg . |
| 3 | Mary Shelley started writing ‘ Frankenstein ’ when she was only eighteen years old and completed the novel within a year . |
| 4 | The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day . |
| 5 | It 's just that , as a nome who is probably seven years old and feeling a bit creaky , I 've got to admit I 'd find it sort of comforting to have a few of the good old signs around the place . |
| 6 | On an acupuncture ward I watched a doctor insert long copper needles into the scalp of a one year old and saw the baby howl when every ten minutes the needles were twisted to stimulate the body energy . |
| 7 | They can go to work when about one year old and have a working life up to the age of approximately ten years . |
| 8 | In 1979 a Green Paper examined the likely growth in transport needs to the year 2000 and formed the basis of future thinking on the concepts of ‘ Community interest ’ as a justification for European action to improve transport links between the various member countries . |