Example sentences of "year [adj] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spinal Tap film may be over ten years old but the traits which it parodies still seem to be very much in evidence today . |
| 2 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 3 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 4 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 5 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 6 | When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) . |
| 7 | Brian , their youngest child , was born in Rugby in England and was four years old when the couple decided to move to Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | A child 's first lessons occur when she or he is 6 or 7 years old when the ruwang gathers a group of boys and girls together to teach them ta'kwakomena ( consciousness , will , responsibility ) , or basically social morality . |
| 9 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 10 | With my black friends , their babies are two years old and the parents still cause so much strife . |
| 11 | A typical Neolithic mine is not very different from our contemporary idea of a mine even though these are over 4000 years old and the interior of the mine at Grimes Graves is shown in Figure 6.6 . |
| 12 | TWO OF THE YOUNGEST REFUGEES : THE BOY IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND THE GIRL SIX PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 13 | I was six years old and the scene was the dim and secluded scullery in my grandparents ' house . |
| 14 | Then , pointing to the Labrador , who had already arrived , Sophie said , ‘ She 's ten years old and the pet of a handicapped child . ’ |
| 15 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 16 | This comes as something of a surprise , because the human species is only about four million years old and the Brahims substantially younger ! |
| 17 | The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl . |
| 18 | On this occasion I would like to mention your Guild is only 14 years younger than the Diocese itself . |
| 19 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 20 | ‘ I now find that I am an exact contemporary of the current vice-president of the USA and just two years younger than the president . ’ |
| 21 | Anna Ford is three years older than the man who will now feature constantly in her news bulletins , and her former rival Angela Rippon is 48 . |
| 22 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 23 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 24 | One of the bells is in fact 82 years older than the building . |
| 25 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 26 | Graham Gooch , with whom Gower seems locked in a strange love-hate relationship , is three years older than the boy David . |
| 27 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 28 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Hence , if one considers a long-lived tree , say a three-hundred-year-old oak , the innermost heartwood will give a radiocarbon result three hundred years older than the sapwood . |