Example sentences of "[adj] years [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have remained interested in the future , and are often younger in spirit than many others who are 30 years their junior . |
| 2 | She shocked the world with a short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra , 30 years her senior . |
| 3 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 4 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 5 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 6 | Roberton 's interests extended to chamber music , and for some years his concerts featured visits from the London String Quartet and the Lener String Quartet . |
| 7 | She was some years his junior , not pretty , but personable enough , with brown hair , neatly dressed and a good figure . |
| 8 | Mind you , he was also daunted by the fact that I was some years his senior . |
| 9 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 10 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 11 | In a few years her shame , and she herself , would be forgotten . |
| 12 | The last few years her mother had been waging a war on all vermin , including bed bugs . |
| 13 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 14 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |
| 15 | In a few years their needs were very different , the young one needed to be in bed and the older one wanted to play music with his friends . |
| 16 | In the last few years our understanding of pillow lavas has advanced dramatically , due almost entirely to some remarkable observations made by diver-geologists of pillow lavas actually in the process of formation in the sea off Hawaii . |
| 17 | During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage . |
| 18 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 19 | He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’ |
| 20 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 21 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |
| 22 | It was agreed that during the next 12 years his earnings would have been £21,000 per annum , which would have given him £7,500 after tax . |
| 23 | The Honourable Diana Spencer was born late on the afternoon of July 1,1961 , the third daughter of Viscount Althorp , then aged 37 , and Viscountess Althorp , 12 years his junior . |
| 24 | Another interest is the light railways of France and for the past six years his holidays have been spent exploring them . |
| 25 | What did bother him was that in his duel within McLaren with Prost , the Frenchman , six years his junior , always started with an advantage . |
| 26 | Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving . |
| 27 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 28 | His colleague , the poet Thomas Gray , six years his senior , was becoming concerned for his reputation in other respects by 1747 when he wrote to his friend Thomas Warton about Smart 's conduct : ‘ His debts daily increase ( you remember the state they were in when you left us ) ’ . |
| 29 | For most of the past 100 years our teacher education has been based in specialist colleges . |
| 30 | His first marriage to actress Mimi Rogers , 10 years his senior , broke down after just three years . |