Example sentences of "about [adj] year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was considerably younger than Jonadab , being about fifty years of age . |
| 2 | Half the remainder die in old age , losing about eight years of life . |
| 3 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 4 | It is not to change the policy or feel some humility about 12 years of failure . |
| 5 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 6 | It is known that myelinisation of the fibres of the corpus callosum is not complete until about 10 years of age ( Yakovlev and Lecours , 1967 ) . |
| 7 | Whilst we were still looking at the blaze , Marjorie Truckle ( Ernie 's sister ) , who would have been about thirteen years of age , came rushing across the field with a message from their mother — |
| 8 | He does remember , puckishly , an incident when he was about three years of age . |
| 9 | They are not very long-lived : the oldest cows are about 17 years of age and the bulls perhaps 13 . |
| 10 | I would then be about 5 years of age . |
| 11 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 12 | I do n't think a boy of about ten years of age would be capable of such martyrdom . |
| 13 | But as she turned to thank the coachman he caught sight of her profile : that of a woman unknown to him , about twenty-five years of age , pretty in a conventional way , with mousy-brown hair . |
| 14 | Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car . |
| 15 | The boy was about twelve years of age and a little impudent in his attitude . |
| 16 | She was about twelve years of age — standard years — and possessed the curious red-gold hair colouring of a descendant of the Ancestor . |
| 17 | fully established daily rhythms — that is , ones like those in adults — do not develop until about five years of age . |
| 18 | Predictable though it was , it had taken ‘ about fifteen years of experience for the point to really strike home ’ . |
| 19 | D. A. A friend of mine was posted to a beat in Allerton and one summer 's afternoon he saw a young lad — about fifteen years of age — getting into a car . |
| 20 | The Shooting Party author with a novel about 40 years of change in a community . |
| 21 | On his discharge certificate he is described as about 40 years of age , 6ft.2in. tall ( an unusual height for those days ) , with brown hair , hazel eyes and a fresh complexion ; and by trade a carpenter . |
| 22 | When I was about four years of age , he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses . |
| 23 | On the other side sat a pleasant Bedford woman of about thirty years of age . |
| 24 | It was natural for the Girls to go out with men but Tiller was possessive and seemed to expect them to remain single until they were about thirty years of age , then quietly fade away . |
| 25 | While visiting Wilton Abbey to see his prospective bride , Count Alan saw another lady who must have been about thirty years of age . |
| 26 | At the front of the queue , but not part of it , is a lanky white guy about thirty years of age . |
| 27 | After that she went into service and there she stayed until , when she was about twenty-two years of age , her brother came to tell her he was married and to ask her if she would leave her employer and come to look after his wife who was expecting a baby . |
| 28 | Toddler diarrhoea usually clears up by about two years of age , and the usual medical advice is to leave it untreated . |
| 29 | Here is perhaps the simplest and most dramatic example : the non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age . |