Example sentences of "[num] year of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
| 5 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 12 | Ten years of age she was . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | AFTER 16 years of marriage we are splitting up and are both agreed that it is the best thing to do . |
| 17 | The general story is well known : the director at Ulm saying you must go to better things , your dismissal , months of unemployment , and then the chance of the Aachen post despite the fact that at 27 years of age you were thought far too young for such an important post in German musical life . |
| 18 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
| 19 | In more than five years of operation it allegedly invested more than US$50,000,000 in cocaine trafficking , arms smuggling and the illegal export of Indian mummies from the northern Atacama desert region . |
| 20 | After five years of controversy it is about to be laid to rest . |
| 21 | If you have children under five years of age you can not get free milk but the rates of Family credit are increased because of this . |
| 22 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 23 | In 40 years of film-making they have had not one disagreement . |
| 24 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 25 | After more than fifty-four years of marriage she was by his side when he died at the age of eighty-four , at 21 Frimley Gardens , Mitcham , south London , 4 June 1943 . |
| 26 | After eighteen years of pain I have decided to leave . |
| 27 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 28 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 29 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 30 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |