Example sentences of "year old [conj] [art] [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 | The tropical rainforest tree pictured on the front of the leaflet was at least 400 years old when a chainsaw cut it down . |
| 4 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 5 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Brian , their youngest child , was born in Rugby in England and was four years old when the couple decided to move to Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 13 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |
| 14 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 16 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 19 | With my black friends , their babies are two years old and the parents still cause so much strife . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | TWO OF THE YOUNGEST REFUGEES : THE BOY IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND THE GIRL SIX PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 22 | I was six years old and the scene was the dim and secluded scullery in my grandparents ' house . |
| 23 | Then , pointing to the Labrador , who had already arrived , Sophie said , ‘ She 's ten years old and the pet of a handicapped child . ’ |
| 24 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 25 | This comes as something of a surprise , because the human species is only about four million years old and the Brahims substantially younger ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She knew vaguely there was a wonderful person everyone was talking about , but who could be more wonderful to a wide-eyed seven year old than the sight of their own father guarding a flag with gold tassels ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Although the idea of WCY is over a year old and the year is now a month old , Britain has only just announced its six-man committee to represent the country 's interests . |