Example sentences of "i [verb] a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight years ago , no nine years ago , I lost a three year old grandchild from something very much like T S S , and that was erm streptococcus septicaemia . |
| 2 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 3 | Not really no , I mean , erm , I did a three year national diploma in music , music recording |
| 4 | I waited a thousand years for my introduction , then the curtains opened and I found myself centre-stage . |
| 5 | I have a five year old three foot tank housing fish and inverts . |
| 6 | I earn £28000 a year , and I have a one year contract . |
| 7 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |
| 8 | I mean if you watch a child , and I have a seven year old boy , playing stacking cards or dominoes is the current thing in our house , watching them stack them and then knocking them off and watching them fall and the way they fall , the amount of work which is involved there in structures and forces and the nature of gravity and the way things behave under gravity fascinate them . |