Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months . |
| 2 | The Blankety Blank star , who married the ex-barmaid 17 years his junior after his first wife Meg died from cancer , recorded the interview for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair just a week before he died of a heart attack in June . |
| 3 | Two years of training compared favourably with the minimum three years it took to acquire a degree . |
| 4 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |
| 5 | Her unusually youthful looks meant Kylie could play a girl four years her junior and her portrayal of the spirited 12-year-old Charlene helped make The Henderson Kids a hit in Australia . |
| 6 | Louis described James as ‘ the best fellow in the world ’ and was distinctly smitten by his wife , Mary of Modena , though the French were puzzled that , as a beautiful woman of 30 , she should be faithful to a husband 26 years her senior . |
| 7 | This is a boy who is married to a woman 14 years his senior and plays father to a girl only nine years younger than himself . |
| 8 | Recent vault clearances of over 2,000 coffins of the period 1729–1865 from St Marylebone Parish Church and Christchurch , Spitalfields , 18 exhibit a change in attitude ; for here , whilst it was not unusual to find wedding rings and dentures in situ , there were two instances — both men — of day-clothes having been used in place of the shroud : one in military uniform , the other an octogenarian macaroni with his walking stick , sporting an outfit more suited to a man sixty years his junior , as did the coiffure of his wig . |
| 9 | The sophistication exuded by a man twelve years her senior was no doubt part of the attraction for the Honourable Frances Roche , the daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy , who was an 1 8-year-old debutante when they first met . |
| 10 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 11 | If the spectacle of a woman well into her fifties in love with a man twelve years her junior is ridiculous , then they were ridiculous . |
| 12 | His hips were narrow , like those of a man fifteen years his junior , and his arms were long . |
| 13 | Her charm was such that her second marriage was with a man twenty years her junior , Sir John Danvers . |
| 14 | She is married for the second time to a man 15 years her junior . |
| 15 | ‘ Actually , it was n't hard for me to play a man ten years my junior , because I was not only physically younger but I 've always been emotionally immature . ’ |
| 16 | At 23 years old , Alex Watts has the presence of a man ten years his senior , tempered with a new-found impatience he knows frustrates his family and friends . |
| 17 | At the Scotland-Wales match I was severely reprimanded by a steward 30 years my junior for daring to place one foot on the hallowed turf as I made my exit from the ‘ schoolboys ’ enclosure ’ . |
| 18 | The reappraisal comes , incidentally , just after I drew attention to Emma Tennant 's forthcoming biography , which makes some play of Hardy 's relationship with an actress 60 years his junior . |
| 19 | The initial interview with an MD seven years my junior was largely comfortable and amicable apart from the minor irritant when he asked if I thought I could relate to young people in the office . |