Example sentences of "[adj] years of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
| 2 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 3 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 4 | With just under six years of office still to run , Mr Ozal presumably calculates that the party needs his popularity much more than he needs the party — particularly if there is to be an early general election to take advantage of an alliance victory in the Gulf war . |
| 5 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 6 | Young adults living with relatives The early years of marriage traditionally have been a time when people did live with relatives , before establishing their own household , although this is now less common than it once was . |
| 7 | Thus sharing accommodation with relatives in the early years of marriage still is the experience of a sizeable minority of the population , especially for those who marry young . |
| 8 | The upshot is that , since he married Albertina in 1944 , they have spent rather more than 30 years of their 45 years of marriage apart . |
| 9 | Benny felt as if she were eight years of age again , instead of almost eighteen . |
| 10 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 11 | At 75 years of age also decided it was time to take things a little easier and retired on after 13 years with the company . |
| 12 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 13 | He stipulated that his kinsman John Herringman should have ‘ my Coppyes and partes of Coppys of Books as they stand entered in the Register Booke of the Company of Staconers … provided that he serves out his seaven years of Apprentishipp justly and truly ’ . |
| 14 | It was lovingly tended by its station-master , Mr James , who retired in 1899 after fifty years of service there , during which time he had installed not only flower-beds but a fountain complete with goldfish . |
| 15 | It has been shown that more than one third of all new businesses cease trading within two or three years of start up and the vast majority of those remaining in business are small throughout their economic life . |
| 16 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 17 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
| 18 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 19 | GOLDEN couple Bill and Freda Jefferson celebrate 50 years of marriage today and put their happiness down to working together . |
| 20 | His paper , born during the German occupation of the Balkans , is due to celebrate 50 years of publication later this year . |
| 21 | Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children . |
| 22 | For the yards owner , it was 25 years of work up in smoke . |
| 23 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 24 | His vital interest was exploring the countryside with his school friend Arthur Hardy , as he records it in A Sportsman 's Tale : ‘ We had spent the best ten years of life together and after that saw one another about twice a year … |
| 25 | During those years of service overseas he acquired fluency in eight oriental and African languages , and wrote a number of erudite articles which appeared in the Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society . |
| 26 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 27 | Men , if they are still fit on retirement , will have another fifteen years of life ahead of them , whilst women will mostly outlive their husbands and have a further twenty or more years ahead . |
| 28 | Five years of therapy later , I realise what a lot of ‘ work ’ we did have to do to understand the underlying reasons for my eating disorder , and for many other things in my life , and also to have a wider understanding of eating disorders in general and what they are about . |
| 29 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 30 | The person covered by the Plan is the person named on the Car Loan agreement Form , who on the date of the agreement must be : - less than 65 years of age actively in permanent and gainful employment ( including self-employment ) of not less than 16 hours a week . |