Example sentences of "[num] years [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
2 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said P C Tom Cawley had already served 2 years for offences he certainly never committed , on fabricated evidence . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Only six years after Waterloo there were already 20,028 tons of steam shipping around the coasts . |
8 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
9 | In 10 years with Llanelli his grand total of games was a miserly 260 . |
10 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
11 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
12 | Eight years for youth who stabbed frail pensioner , 85 |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
17 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
18 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
19 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
20 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
21 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | If the purity of the motive was not here in question , we can sorrowfully contrast the fate of Alfred Berry , an unfortunate young man of 18 years from Camden whose idea of mischievous fun was to make an annoying din in the open streets between three and four o'clock in the morning in late December 1862 . |
24 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
27 | A country is required within 3 — 5 years to repurchase its drawings through buying back its own currency with foreign currencies . |
28 | ‘ But I am sad and disappointed in my 11 years with Newcastle I have found them players worth millions . ’ |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |