Example sentences of "[num] years of [noun sg] [pron] " 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
6 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Ten years of age she was . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | As the name of this test implies , it is designed to be used as a screening device to identify children between 3 and 8 years of age who require further assessment and possible intervention ( Lee 1969 ) . |
22 | Over her nine years of life there 's been a serious build-up of fluid on her chest . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | AFTER 16 years of marriage we are splitting up and are both agreed that it is the best thing to do . |
25 | Immigration control had for long been advocated and in 1917 , under pressure of war , an Immigration Act was passed forbidding the entry of aliens over 16 years of age who were unable to read a 40-word passage . |
26 | Sixty one years of age who employs |
27 | 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 . |
28 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
29 | 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 . |
30 | After five years of controversy it is about to be laid to rest . |