Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 2 | I am a 13 years old Andre Agassi fanatic who is very satisfied with the newsletters , and great photos . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 4 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 5 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 6 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 7 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 8 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 9 | However , because of the recent advent of food surpluses , this is n't the same problem as it would have been a few years ago . |
| 10 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 11 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 12 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 13 | It must have been a dozen years since they were last used . |
| 14 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 15 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
| 16 | Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is . |
| 17 | In this way she lived to be a hundred years old , more or less . |
| 18 | When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Really , ’ sighed Mr Punch when he had got it all off his chest , ‘ from the outrages which have been late perpetrated , one might think that one was living now in London as it used to be a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 20 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
| 21 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 22 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 23 | Jenner had begun to make use of cowpox for human vaccination in 1798 , but it would be a few years before its use was widespread , and 1840 before it was available free . |
| 24 | Although his friend must be a few years younger than Alice , he was fancy-free , and Alice was so lovely to look at these days , the age difference would n't be noticed . |
| 25 | But let's see what she 'll be a few years hence . |
| 26 | ‘ It will be a few years , ’ they said , ‘ before we know that you 're really all right . ’ |
| 27 | However , that would be a few years , take a few years before that happened . |
| 28 | this is going back must be a few years , we were laughing and figuring sort of , you know , this bloke back of the garage in the end he said we give him the bill and said yeah you can soon run out |
| 29 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 30 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |