Example sentences of "[prep] [num] be [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average age at marriage in 1986 was 26.3 years for bachelors and 24.1 for spinsters ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | The expectation of life at birth for women born in 1976 was 75.8 years , while for those born 50 years earlier it was 59.3 years . |
| 3 | This is a small sample : the average age of all brides in Scotland in 1908 was 26.8 years , " and perhaps our compositors were nearer the average than the precise records can show . |
| 4 | The average delay over the whole period is 4.8 years , but if the data are split into the two time periods represented in the Rolfe & Will lists , it is found that the average delay for the 1960-1976 period is 8.8 years , whereas the average for 1976-83 is 1.9 years . |
| 5 | Lutz , who at twelve was three years older than Mary , was even more of a handful : |