Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 2 | I know it was a lie , but at six years old I felt that a close relative should be the one to tell him in a quiet way . |
| 3 | His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries . |
| 4 | After a series of goldfish bowls and acid jars at 10 years old I received my first proper aquarium a 30″ × 12″ × 12″ steel frame tank for my birthday . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt that Ben panicked in our race in Seville , ’ Carl said , ‘ and if someone is with him at sixty metres then I think he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 6 | At 11 years old it was magical to be making films — you were treated like a star , and I was very proud of myself . |
| 7 | At 36 tons each it was an interesting engineering project to slide the old boilers across the floor of the boilerhouse on special rollers before being craned onto a low loader . |
| 8 | At 3 years old he contracted Meningitis . |
| 9 | At fifteen years old I started my drama course and I could n't have been happier . |
| 10 | At five feet eight she was above the average height for a woman . |
| 11 | At twenty-two years old she was already a Fascist speaker and organiser at Manchester , though she had a full-time job as a secretary with Morton Sundour Fabrics . |
| 12 | At seven years old I determined to be a great footballer . |
| 13 | At 20 years old he is a Grand Slam winner and he achieved it against Agassi in a slugging final that in the end had the 17.000 crowd at Roland Garros on their feet . |