Example sentences of "[adj] year of [noun sg] [pron] " 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 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
| 7 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some jobs require many years of training which restricts the supply of labour . |
| 21 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 22 | To determine , say , the incidence of deafness in men between 50 and 55 years of age we really need more of a cine film approach . |
| 23 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 24 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 25 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 26 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 27 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 28 | The Wray Education Trust is a fund which benefits young people under 25 years of age who attend further education establishments , also apprentices , and other education activities within the village . |
| 29 | Ten years of age she was . |
| 30 | 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 . |