Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociable Dorothy , although only seventeen years old , managed to infuse some sort of order into Isobel 's shattered life , hoping that soon Isobel would decide what she would do in the future , so that she herself could go back home to Wales , which , from the vantage point of Tollemarche , seemed infinitely cosy and desirable . |
| 2 | Although only two years old , this wine is already mature enough to drink . |
| 3 | Although only 10 years into production , Magnus is regarded as having reached middle age and approaching the point where production should begin to decline . |
| 4 | He has succeeded in creating the atmosphere of a Mediterranean village , through the various architectural embellishments ; the old style Mallorcan houses , with their pastel-shaded façades , balconies , verandas , shutters and irregular roof-lines , suggest that the Anchorage Village has evolved over generations rather than just six years . |
| 5 | Although still two years before the Club was constituted , the land had clearly been earmarked for a golf course , and in 1906 ‘ The Syndicate ’ , as the company was known locally , agreed to sell this same 70 acres of land to a nucleus of people who were to form the kernel of the Club 's future bondholders , but who were then merely interested persons . |
| 6 | A couple of black kids no more than about nine years old appeared from nowhere , hands in pockets , just sauntering by . |
| 7 | It should be pointed out that even if the figures cited earlier are achieved , they are not overwhelming , since they constitute no more than about two years ' growth . |
| 8 | Felted roofing — and flat roofs in particular , need regular supervision if they are to stay watertight once they 're more than about 10 years old . |
| 9 | Most of us do not find it easy to imagine our futures and it is extremely rare to meet an individual capable of projecting himself mentally more than about five years ahead . |
| 10 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 11 | In contrast , radiocarbon typically produces error terms of plus/minus 50–100 years , independent of age , for ages less than about 10,000 years , after which the error increases . |
| 12 | Quantum mechanics , although now eighty years old , has shown no signs of transforming the school science curriculum . |
| 13 | In background he was very similar to my generation of politicians , although about ten years older . |
| 14 | Writing and reporting skills are now much more sophisticated than even five years ago , and much more is expected of nurses and health visitors in completing documentation , preparing care plans and relating progress and evaluation reports , and in providing background reports for the information and assistance of other health professionals . |
| 15 | The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention . |
| 16 | Employers who take on people who have been unemployed for longer than either two years or four years , depending on the pilot area , will be paid a subsidy related to average benefits . |
| 17 | up until just six years ago crews unhappy about the weight of their cox would bring them down into the brewery for a spot of heavy labour — shovelling mash , to get their weight down . |
| 18 | If under 16 years , consent to the assault is no defence . |
| 19 | The Park Authority will charge competitors 50p an event on its land ( 25p if under 16 years old ) . |
| 20 | Though Between and Thru exhibit striking parallels with the emergent thinking in the late 1960s and early 1970s about the relation of women to language , it was not until nearly fifteen years later that she began to make use of gender-specific arguments in her critical writings . |
| 21 | The comprehensive Forest Eyre of 1488–90 was not repeated until nearly 150 years later , as a desperate expedient of the last decade of Charles I 's personal rule . |
| 22 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 23 | Until about five years ago most boats in general club use were of this sort . |
| 24 | Until about four years ago the return was produced by hand ( and its equivalents still are in some areas ) , a time consuming and laborious job . |
| 25 | The relation with the recent oil impact measure table IV has obvious relevance here and also to why all the Thurso cases are in the west of the town , with none in the east : west Thurso is largely composed of nuclear workers not native to the area ( locally known as ‘ atomics ’ ) , making it until about 10 years ago rather separate from the rest of the town . |
| 26 | And yet , if a circle of blisters caused by the plague could give rise to a Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses , and the famous Dick Whittington cat was not introduced until about 150 years after Dick died , why should embellishment through the ages not have taken King Coel or Coilus to Old King Cole , completed with pipe , bowl and fiddlers three . |
| 27 | Hence the addition of the term " direct " to what , until about 150 years ago , was everywhere known simply as " democracy " . |
| 28 | Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries . |
| 29 | Following these giants , and until about twenty years ago , however , there was a ‘ dark age ’ during which sociologists tended to ignore the subject . |
| 30 | and I thought , shall I send a card , and I thought no , cos that many years have gone by |