Example sentences of "[adj] year of [noun] i " in BNC.
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1 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
2 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
3 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
4 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
5 | In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database . |
6 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
7 | After eighteen years of pain I have decided to leave . |
8 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
9 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
10 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
11 | But at 20 years of age I had no scruples about rubber gloves and bleach , and dealt with the problem straight away . |