Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] years [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cavour , only fifty years of age , the great statesman Italy had needed for so long . |
| 2 | He was only 22 years of age . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although only 10 years into production , Magnus is regarded as having reached middle age and approaching the point where production should begin to decline . |
| 6 | Not long afterwards his hotbeds produced ‘ fine , large , beautiful fruit , just like Miller 's ’ and so six years of patience were rewarded . |
| 7 | Children below three years of age can show some forms of pro-social behaviour , especially after ( approximately ) twenty months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 10 | The course consisted mainly of volunteers for ‘ hostilities only ’ , most of which were only 18 years of age . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the little boy , having missed so many years of schooling , was backward in his lessons , and Edouard feared that he would be teased . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I deserved better after so many years of service , ’ he said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 16 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 17 | Moreover , strikes were illegal , wages were controlled by the state and people were anxious to improve their standard of living after so many years of rationing and privation . |
| 18 | Thus the time-honoured name of Revenue Cutter was dropped after so many years of tradition . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The prospect of real freedom after so many years of oppression is exciting as well as daunting . |
| 22 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 23 | But after so many years in showbusiness it was n't surprising . |
| 24 | What had she held for so many years in trust and secrecy ? |
| 25 | He also noted that books by John Buchan , his wife 's grandfather , were always best-sellers at the sale , and that several of J.B. 's rarer books , including Sir Quixote of the Moors , a novel written and published when he was only 17 years of age , would be on sale this year . |
| 26 | She had engaged a young girl , only fourteen years of age , called Maria , brought to her by the caretaker of the house , and vouched for as ‘ good and obedient ’ . |
| 27 | Simple photographs , perceived to have little artistic quality are afforded copyright protection for only twenty-five years after death whereas editorial photographs and ‘ artistic ’ photographs are given periods of protection of fifty years and seventy years after death , respectively . |
| 28 | With only 6000 years of life left the temperature rockets to 620 million degrees , to convert carbon into neon . |
| 29 | She had taken that step ; and now she , at only 36 years of age , had to bring up her children alone , and help them in their turn to make that large and difficult step . |
| 30 | She is a teacher of primary school kids and decides , probably rightly , that these two English boys are really only ten years of age and should be treated as such . |