Example sentences of "[adj] years old [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor was almost 45 years old and time was pressing . |
| 2 | His wife , Phillis , was sixteen years old and fat , and sick of Rab and his mean ways . |
| 3 | Groom ( if much more than ten years older than bride ) can look a bit of a Lothario as he escorts her down the aisle . |
| 4 | He was now twenty-three years old and commander of the First Corps of the Duke of Wellington 's army . |
| 5 | In 1832 a young Englishman , Charles Darwin , twenty-four years old and naturalist on HMS Beagle , a brig sent by the Admiralty in London on a surveying voyage round the world , came to such a forest outside Rio de Janeiro . |