Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | His skin was dirty in places and wrinkled and Endill thought he must be at least fifty years old . |
| 2 | If they did , it will be at least 10 years before a cure is developed . |
| 3 | But as with most things scientific , it 'll be at least 5 years before the information gathered from the Oxfordshire countryside will be put to good use by the forecasters . |
| 4 | Potential staff have to be at least 18 years old and qualified up to GCSE level , including maths and English . |
| 5 | You must be at least 18 years old , have a suitable account with a clearing bank or other financial institution represented by the Association for Payment Clearing Services and your premiums for each policy should not exceed £20,000 . |
| 6 | Applicants must normally be at least 18 years of age and should possess : |
| 7 | The course is designed for adults ; the students should be at least 18 years old . |
| 8 | Why some growers , who must be at least 93 years of age by now ( or 83 provided half their vineyard contains authorised varieties ) , wish to continue with very old , low-yielding and inferior-quality Gamay vines , God only knows . |
| 9 | It will be at least five years , Earle estimates , before users creep away from their mainframe dependencies , though recent research it has done shows 10% of major mainframe users do want to talk about downsizing their operations . |
| 10 | Trials on women suffering from advanced breast cancer start soon , but it 'll be at least five years before scientists know whether gestodene can help treat the disease and 15 before it 's known if it can help prevent it . |
| 11 | In the year in which he had been born , 1846 , the Secretary of the Education Committee — a certain James Kay-Shuttleworth — had introduced a system of apprentice schoolmasters ; the trainee had to be at least 13 years old , be able to read with ‘ fluency , ease and expression ’ , write neatly and accurately , and understand the essentials of arithmetic and the system of weights and measures . |
| 12 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 13 | Candidates could be rejected on grounds including character ; they had to be at least 45 years of age and have financial management skills . |
| 14 | And the age of the primary application should be at least 20 years . |
| 15 | The standard will eventually be superseded by European equivalents , but this will probably be at least three years away . |
| 16 | All drivers must be at least 21 years old to hire a car . |
| 17 | Driving licences and permits — All drivers must be at least 21 years of age ( 23 in Greece ) and must produce a valid national driving licence , held for at least a year , when taking delivery of the car . |
| 18 | It will probably be at least 3 years before production could begin . |
| 19 | Now Vernage is back behind bars and it will be at least 25 years before he comes out to scare anyone again . |
| 20 | Must be at least ten years . |
| 21 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 22 | * The Malaysian government is considering extending the period of timber concessions to 25 years , with the proviso that trees cut should be at least 40 years old . |
| 23 | The proprietor of the vines in 1948 had to be at least 60 years of age in 1952 . |
| 24 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
| 25 | Even if the results of the trials are dramatic , it 'll be at least 2 years before people with the virus could benefit . |
| 26 | It must be at least twenty years since I first saw works by Basil Rocke . |
| 27 | She appeared to be at least twenty years older . |