Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the British population 70 year old men are on average about 4 cm shorter than 40 year old men , partly because of the general increase in adult height since the 1930s . |
| 2 | There are always likely to be complaints about the precise distribution of conduct within the ladder of offences , but by permitting a maximum penalty as high as ten years for the lowest category , the relegation of conduct to it becomes less significant . |
| 3 | It has some 20,000 prints and drawings of a topographical nature , and about 3000 broadsheets , some as old as 600 years . |
| 4 | It is certainly lower than four years ago , but it 's better than 1980–81 . |
| 5 | It 's sad because 20 years is a big chunk in your life . ’ |
| 6 | In some cases , the final shape of the RMC is different from that originally envisaged and some of them took as much as five years to come into existence . |
| 7 | The large aeroplane manufacturers have as much as 10 years ' worth of future work on their order books , and an active market has developed among airlines and leasing companies for delivery slots . |
| 8 | It could take as much as 10 years for the industry to mature to the stage that America 's is at now . |
| 9 | Some American analyses have indicated that their average life span may be as much as 10 years longer than that of meat eaters and they spend less time in hospital . |
| 10 | The majority of the work shown was very recent , but several of the pieces date back as much as 10 years revealing her fascination with the themes from classical mythology over a long period . |
| 11 | Standard tests of numeracy and literacy reveal that English 11-year-olds are as much as two years behind their contemporaries in Germany and Japan . |
| 12 | That this must be the explanation for Kammerer 's disturbing results is attested to by the discovery of a wild midwife toad with rudimentary nuptial pads as much as two years before Kammerer took his own life . |
| 13 | This is why publication of the Institute 's Environment Research Group 's report Business , Accountancy and the Enviroment : A Policy and Research Agenda is such a welcome event , even if it is as much as two years too late . |
| 14 | He makes a convincing case for links of various sorts and degrees between West European countries going back as much as 5,000 years , but his thesis has one weakness . |
| 15 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 16 | Maturity comes late and the cows are often as much as four years old before they conceive , while the bulls can be sexually mature at 18–20 months old but do not usually mate until about four years old . |
| 17 | Miss Scott-Russell 's 65 ( 82 — 17 ) appears to qualify but seems surprisingly high with as much as seven years passing since the course 's opening and with so many county players in the Club . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's quite likely that for every case of reported illness there are ten to a hundred more , ’ said Jim Curran , the AIDS task force chairman at the CCD , who was seconded to the job for three months in 1981 and is now permanent The incubation period is unusually long — possibly as much as three years . |
| 19 | Some of them have not handled light aircraft since they learned to fly , which can be as much as twenty years earlier . |
| 20 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 21 | As this study was concerned with preventing death , or as much as 30 years of long term serious disablement , by neurosurgical intervention the effect of this omission is considerable . |
| 22 | Those who were younger than 75 years with both twin in each pair still alive were invited to participate in a clinical investigation . |
| 23 | The cheese is sold at no younger than two years and up to five years old . |
| 24 | They are surprisingly early maturing : like the Jersey , they have been known to calve even younger than two years old . |
| 25 | Chimpanzees younger than two years old do not attempt to fish although they do watch their mother doing it . |
| 26 | Patients who refused to participate , who did not answer the letters or telephone calls , or who were adopted or unable to give information about bowel disease in their relatives were not included in the segregation analysis , nor were children younger than 8 years of age . |
| 27 | It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures . |
| 28 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |
| 29 | Piaget views these inversions as evidence that children younger than seven years are confused about the meaning of because , and about the distinction between cause and effect : they do not know that because should introduce a cause rather than an effect . |
| 30 | As we saw earlier , Piaget argued that children younger than seven years lack the ability to explain , and he sees this as yet another symptom of their egocentrism . |