Example sentences of "year [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would seem that for too many years little or no research was done on TB and now we do n't seem to have the answers when the questions are being asked . |
| 2 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 5 | The tropical rainforest tree pictured on the front of the leaflet was at least 400 years old when a chainsaw cut it down . |
| 6 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 7 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Brian , their youngest child , was born in Rugby in England and was four years old when the couple decided to move to Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 15 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |
| 16 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 18 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 21 | With my black friends , their babies are two years old and the parents still cause so much strife . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | TWO OF THE YOUNGEST REFUGEES : THE BOY IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND THE GIRL SIX PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 24 | I was six years old and the scene was the dim and secluded scullery in my grandparents ' house . |
| 25 | Then , pointing to the Labrador , who had already arrived , Sophie said , ‘ She 's ten years old and the pet of a handicapped child . ’ |
| 26 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 27 | This comes as something of a surprise , because the human species is only about four million years old and the Brahims substantially younger ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Hon. Peter Horbury appeared to be some ten or twelve years younger than the earl . |
| 30 | On this occasion I would like to mention your Guild is only 14 years younger than the Diocese itself . |