Example sentences of "[num] years [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine . |
| 2 | At nearly thirty-six years old he captured his fifth Open title , just one short of Harry Vardon 's record . |
| 3 | Well anybody over forty years old it ought to be , it ought to be compulsory ! |
| 4 | Now 12 years old he carries top weight in the Maze Handicap Hurdle . |
| 5 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 6 | ‘ Jaysus is n't that great , if you were six years older I 'd take you into Shea 's and put you up on my knee and buy you a gin and it . ’ |
| 7 | Even at five or six years old they can look after the smaller ones and start fetching water and firewood . |
| 8 | A long time ago when I was six years old me and Neil went out mise chifing I chut a stown and it naile it a wondow then we ran off then we came to somedody garben then we clad up there tree and shouted fatet . |
| 9 | His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries . |
| 10 | I know it was a lie , but at six years old I felt that a close relative should be the one to tell him in a quiet way . |
| 11 | ‘ Although I was only six years old I can remember the seriousness of the matter and wondering how this affected us , ’ recalls Judy Watson , of The Crescent , Northallerton . |
| 12 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 13 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 14 | When he is 10 years older he will be happy with 65 every time . ’ |
| 15 | After a series of goldfish bowls and acid jars at 10 years old I received my first proper aquarium a 30″ × 12″ × 12″ steel frame tank for my birthday . |
| 16 | There are not many yews of this age left in Britain ; in fact if the tree is 2,000 years old it 'll be one of only about 40 trees in western Europe to have reached this age . |
| 17 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 18 | I was er twelve or thirteen years old I was there . |
| 19 | When I was eight years old I joined our school choir . |
| 20 | Yeah I can remember when I was about er seven or eight years old I had a a Hornby train which is almost identical , except it was red , I go I think some other people had one as well . |
| 21 | — Mind , if I was fifty years younger I 'd be after him myself ! — A right charmer and no mistake ! ’ |
| 22 | But that 's ridic no that 's , but Charlotte wh when you 're eleven years old you do n't look at someone else and , and |
| 23 | From when I was eleven years old I felt totally alone . |
| 24 | I was left school about er eleven years old I was . |
| 25 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 26 | he want , do n't wan na be three , three years old he 'll still , he needs the buggy , then we can get that one back out again , you wo n't need a double one then will you ? |
| 27 | When Eva was three years old she was taken by train to the city . |
| 28 | When Anna was three years old it was decided to put her in foal , but many nose twitches , injections , and rectal examinations later , she was still not pregnant ; so she was sold . |
| 29 | A As vintage Champagne is not released before it is three years old it is a relatively mature wine and is thus ready to drink when available in Sainsbury 's . |
| 30 | In his Budget speech in April , 1950 , the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that ‘ for the three years 1950–2 we have decided that the programme for Great Britain should be at the completion rate of 200,000 houses a year ’ . |