Example sentences of "[adj] year [prep] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 2 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 3 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 4 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
| 5 | Drillien ( 1964 ) found that children at 2 years of age who were potted early were neither wetter nor dryer , cleaner nor dirtier than children trained later . |
| 6 | So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army . |
| 7 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 8 | A few years after publication I was introduced to a well known photographer at a party . |
| 9 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
| 10 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 11 | In place of the aggressive approach of the early years of Surrealism itself , Barr 's commentary is in moderated phrases pointing to similarities between Surrealism and works firmly within the tradition of Western art : |
| 12 | Whilst there may be a particular need for parental support in the early years of child-rearing there are plenty of examples of significant assistance being given in other circumstances . |
| 13 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 14 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 15 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 16 | The course follows a very similar pattern to the single honours degree in Modern and Contemporary History , with the distinction that it involves the acquisition of language skills and an extra year of study which is spent in a university in another EC state . |
| 17 | Eight years for youth who stabbed frail pensioner , 85 |
| 18 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 19 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 20 | In children between four and eight years of age there was absolutely no difference between the number of realist answers produced by the pairs and by the control , solo children . |
| 21 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
| 22 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 23 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 24 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
| 25 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 26 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 27 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 28 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 29 | No advance booking is necessary — just turn up with your licence , a passenger over 21 years of age who has held a full driving licence for at least 3 years and the fee of only £2 ( motorcycles £1 ) per hour . |
| 30 | She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range . |