Example sentences of "year [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The use of telex machines increased 7 per cent in the year 1987-88 and the demand for fax machines will outstrip that this year . |
| 5 | The Association for the Conservation of Power estimates that carbon dioxide emissions could increase by up to 20 per cent in the year 2005 if the Government does not confront the problem . |
| 6 | ( Of course , Natalie was n't silly ; she was , in fact , a year younger than the rest of the first-year students , having kept a year ahead at school . ) |
| 7 | Louis was a year older than the Stone boy , and the difference in age between seven and eight is quite remarkable when seen through juvenile eyes . |
| 8 | The lottery is expected to generate substantial additional funds for charities , the arts , sport , heritage and for a millennium fund to celebrate the year 2000 and the beginning of the third millennium . |
| 9 | It reveals a significant gap between the number of informal carers needed by the year 2000 and the number of people who expect to be doing the job . |
| 10 | The western apse is of about the year 1000 and the narthex is later . |
| 11 | In this section we continue the story from the point reached in the ‘ Politics ’ section in Chapter 1 — the year 1815 and the illusion of the eighteenth century restored to Europe . |