Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transmission dates : 6 December — a 30-minute programme looking at five years of the series ; 7–11 and 14–18 December — a series of five-minute programmes at about 8pm and repeated at 11.20pm each night on BBC2 . |
| 2 | So you 're looking for mm well if she 's ten at the moment you 're looking at ten years plus I suppose . |
| 3 | I am delighted that it has now decided to co-operate with the Government and solve a problem that I brought the regional affairs committee of the European Parliament over to look at 14 years ago . |
| 4 | A barium enema performed at seven years disease duration showed recurrent polyps . |
| 5 | Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) show that adding fingerspelling to lip-spoken messages increases comprehension significantly ; unfortunately , this increase results in only 50 per cent understood at 14 years of age . |
| 6 | Patient 405 — large jaw osteoma noted at 15 years with colonoscopy showing areas of microadenomata on biopsy . |
| 7 | It is an early-maturing breed , capable of calving at two years old . |
| 8 | It is a most precocious breed , commonly calving at two years old or earlier , and many individuals seem to be predisposed to fostering alien calves so that they are good multiple sucklers if the milk is not too rich . |
| 9 | The minimum working age must be set at 16 years , and those over this age shall receive fair remuneration , and for a period of two years shall be entitled to vocational training in working hours . |
| 10 | Presumably under Babylonian influence , the life-span of time of the long dominion was set at 12,000 years , the number twelve corresponding to the twelve signs of the zodiac . |
| 11 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 12 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 13 | She had originally had it in childhood but it had disappeared at 14 years . |
| 14 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 15 | P. H. If you went at 25 years ' service , you got half pension . |
| 16 | This period was fixed at ten years , and so it became possible , after the beginning of 1936 , to extend compulsory registration to any county in England and Wales . |
| 17 | Price alone shows the difference between today 's Subaru estate and the model we looked at four years ago . |
| 18 | Development time was estimated at two years . |
| 19 | Equipment life is estimated at 5 years . |
| 20 | The machines have useful lives estimated at three years and will then be sold for £100 each . |
| 21 | Senior judges must retire at seventy-five years of age , Circuit judges at seventy-two with possible extension to seventy-five , Justices of the Peace and stipendiaries at seventy . |
| 22 | These goals reflect the backgrounds ( values , beliefs and experiences ) of individuals and do not emerge fully formed at 20 years of age ; they are acquired over long periods , and particularly during childhood . |
| 23 | I said at eight years old , it should do but it |
| 24 | He also pointed out the amendment in section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( effective from 1 October 1992 ) reducing the maximum term of imprisonment for theft from ten to seven years , thereby distinguishing theft from obtaining by deception , the maximum term for which remains at ten years . |
| 25 | . ’ To the non-musician , the name Mozart means the archetypal prodigy , the boy who started composing at four years old , and as a child touring the courts of Europe astounded monarchs with his amazing aptitude for keyboard playing ; who at 14 copied out from memory a complex choral piece heard once in the Sistine Chapel ; who died in mysterious circumstances and was given a pauper 's funeral in an unmarked grave . |
| 26 | In 1990 the expectation of life at birth stood at 80 years for women and 73.9 years for men , higher than that expected in New Zealand , the United States , and the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | ‘ … got married at sixty-eight years old . |
| 28 | All patients with ulcerative colitis should be screened at eight years . |
| 29 | Three relapsed at 6 years ( n=2 ) and 7 years ( n=1 ) . |
| 30 | worked at Hull Flake mill as a wages clerk for 14 years , retiring at 66 years of age . |