Example sentences of "year [adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tropical rainforest tree pictured on the front of the leaflet was at least 400 years old when a chainsaw cut it down . |
| 2 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 3 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 4 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |
| 5 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 7 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 8 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 9 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 10 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 11 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 12 | A lot of work was done to the bridge in the years 1648–50 and an inscription on it states that it was ‘ built ’ in 1650 . |
| 13 | Abdul Shahid , a Bengali-speaking five year old and a beginner in English , wanted to show off his three sand pies lined up in order of size . |