Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that this can not be one of the most achievement-full years of your life — for indeed it can . |
| 2 | That was the start of the two most demanding years of her life . |
| 3 | Cavour , only fifty years of age , the great statesman Italy had needed for so long . |
| 4 | He was only 22 years of age . |
| 5 | His father died suddenly when he was only 12 years of age and he had an early baptism of public life , being prominent in Scottish affairs while still in his teens . |
| 6 | When he inherited his title , the Earl was only 7 years of age and the family debt was about £270,000 , several millions of pounds at 1990 values . |
| 7 | There were not only extra years of schooling to cope with , but an increase in the birth-rate , following the war . |
| 8 | Not long afterwards his hotbeds produced ‘ fine , large , beautiful fruit , just like Miller 's ’ and so six years of patience were rewarded . |
| 9 | Children below three years of age can show some forms of pro-social behaviour , especially after ( approximately ) twenty months . |
| 10 | Still only 21 years of age in the summer of 1991 , Richard is one of the youngest players to complete their first century of Palace appearances . |
| 11 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 12 | The course consisted mainly of volunteers for ‘ hostilities only ’ , most of which were only 18 years of age . |
| 13 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
| 14 | ‘ The Community can be proud of reaching agreement on an issue of such complexity and importance after so many years of negotiations , ’ the British Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , said last night . |
| 15 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 16 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 17 | It was the least one could do in gratitude for so many years of loyal friendship , and the only basis on which that friendship could continue . |
| 18 | If Europe had not suffered so many years of religious cruelty and persecution , the home-grown cats might have been better developed and ready to compete with the extravagant foreigners . |
| 19 | But the little boy , having missed so many years of schooling , was backward in his lessons , and Edouard feared that he would be teased . |
| 20 | The prospect of real freedom after so many years of oppression is exciting as well as daunting . |
| 21 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 22 | I must admit at this stage I though I had cracked it but I should have known after so many years of breeding fish , success is not guaranteed . |
| 23 | It is doubtful if even after so many years of revolving door policies or community mental health teams , SSDs do have an infrastructure for attractive community-based services . |
| 24 | The shock , after so many years of never knowing who the man was , woke her , but with such a sense of loss at this interrupted coitus she could n't sleep again for mourning it . |
| 25 | In England the criticism of continued military activity by John Wyclif , the opposition to war expressed by men of Lollard sympathies such as William Swynderby , the lassitude provoked by so many years of conflict , mirrored in some of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower , are indicative both of people 's reflection regarding the morality of war and the ways in which it was being fought , and of the apparent futility of allowing it to continue along its present drift , no real advantage accruing to either side in spite of the great cost , both human and financial , to all . |
| 26 | Perhaps , despite lack of affection , he felt he owed Chamberlain something after so many years of efficient subordination . |
| 27 | After so many years of being on my own I really do n't want to settle down and commit myself to a relationship . |
| 28 | After enjoying so many years of unquestioning servility from David , it infuriated him to know that Beth did not feel threatened by him . |
| 29 | This was Hassan Howa , guiding spirit for so many years of the non-racial South African Cricket Board of Control , who had first articulated the verdict on gradual reform : ‘ You can not have normal sport in an abnormal society . ’ |
| 30 | Taking everything into account it is remarkable that the Coniston Mines , tucked away as they were amongst these remote mountains in the north-west of England ( and with the smelters so far away ) , were able to sustain so many years of almost unbroken continuity . |