Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it was found that I was twenty days short of being twenty-one years older than Richard , legal adoption was ruled out . |
| 2 | Start off properly and you have a much better chance of being welcome year after year . |
| 3 | The quartets are well worth getting to know and the performances by the Fitzwilliam Quartet , despite being 15 years old , still seem to reach the heart of the composer 's intentions . |
| 4 | , centre , with workmate , right , and ( retired ) who worked together for most of 's 20 years at . |
| 5 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 6 | Yellow looks like being this year 's colour — the banana does not seem to be able to stay out of the headlines . |
| 7 | thickened from being battered year on year |
| 8 | Mme Guérigny admitted to me shortly after our return that she was feeling a certain contentment in being one year nearer joining her daughter . |
| 9 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 10 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 11 | You must point towards your future , you must wonder if your future is to be fourteen years in the Dubrovlag . |
| 12 | She uses two name Cindy and Linda and claims to be fourteen years old . |
| 13 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 14 | The time was taken to be half way through the interval incorporating the change — for example , for a child in whom fluid was reported at year 3 but not at years 4 and 5 the fluid survival time was estimated to be 3.5 years . |
| 15 | Later , drive to the Buddhist Swayambhunath Stupa , said to be 2,000 years old . |
| 16 | This clump is reckoned to be 2,000 years old . |
| 17 | Life expectancy is reckoned to be 69 years , compared with an average of 57 for the whole of the country . |
| 18 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 19 | They were to be wandering years , but they were to end in triumph . |
| 20 | You are supposed to be eighteen years old . |
| 21 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 22 | It was to be many years before South Africa could support full-time professional dance companies . |
| 23 | We had another seven years of rationing to come , though we did n't know it , and it was to be many years before things returned to normal , but the war was over . |
| 24 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 25 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 26 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 27 | Is it just a coincidence that Jesus is said to be thirty years old when he embarks on his ministry ? |
| 28 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 29 | The BAe 1000 , claimed by BAe to be two years ahead of the competition , will be able to fly up to 15 passengers direct from London to the West coast of the US , Rio de Janeiro or Singapore with one stop-off . |
| 30 | What we ha If we do n't support them during that period , how on earth do we get them to be two years old ? |