Example sentences of "be [num] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one television so they 're forty eight years old and they 've never been . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , parties , clubs , nothing that you would know about , since you 're three hundred years older than me . ’ |
| 3 | I am seventy one years of age . |
| 4 | The Skinner seminar , as far as I can remember , you 've got ta bear in mind I I mean it must be eight nine years ago I probably read Skinner in earnest , yeah ? |
| 5 | Perhaps it will be six more years before another tremor like that . |
| 6 | It was to be three more years before his uncle died , thus becoming the longest-lived Verne-Smith that anyone had heard of . |
| 7 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 8 | Well , I 'm eighty four years old , |
| 9 | The hulk might be ten thousand years old , so scoured , pockmarked , and ancient did some parts appear . |
| 10 | Oh no no it would be ten fifteen years ago I think . |
| 11 | If I live to be one thousand years of age , I ( and no other man ) will never really fathom the female psyche . |
| 12 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 13 | Well I 've been here , it must be thirty five years . |
| 14 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |
| 15 | A building firm is weathering the recession by putting up homes that are five hundred years out of date . |
| 16 | I am nine and-a-half years old and sit in front of the television in England with my brother , watching characters like Meg and Sandy argue in the Cross roads motel , while fat Benny , the tele West Country moron in woolly hat , eats lots of pies . |
| 17 | Norman Rockwell would have been one hundred years old next year . |
| 18 | But then here we are twenty thirty years on and those of us who had that upbringing about the purity of that Royal Family that 's suddenly been confronted with this image that 's anything but that and you know and I 'm , and I , and it 's been and now you have the tabloids saying giving you pictorial evidence of its any , any but that and so that whole erm image , view that a lot of Britons grew up with has gone , it 's been |
| 19 | and that a week before it happened , what 's happened to her , cos she do n't hear from her , and she said you know , I , it 's been twenty five years since my mum died Anne , she said and if I did n't make a life , |
| 20 | I thought that , that must of been twenty odd years since dad died then . |
| 21 | It 's been twenty three years since I |
| 22 | Mind you , I suppose it 's better than being fifty odd years older int it ? |
| 23 | A small number of cycad genera survive in the tropical and subtropical regions today , but they are much less conspicuous today than they were 120 million years ago . |
| 24 | Parts of it were eight hundred years old , the basements were half-filled with fine sand and whatever lived there , lived alone . |
| 25 | Neither planet could be seen optically , the star being 30,000 light years distant from the Earth . |
| 26 | His ancestral village and its myths were three hundred years in the past , and the clear , blue waters of the bay were a sludge of industrial effluent through which thrashed the occasional blinded seabird . |
| 27 | Okay , so imagine you were sixty five years today , how much of your current income would you want ? |
| 28 | The buildings are the same as they were one hundred years ago ; there has been no development on this block . |
| 29 | Its therapies have stood the test of time and are as effective today as they were two hundred years ago . |
| 30 | The actual mill pools are undoubtedly much as they were two hundred years ago , for the natural element , water , is timeless and Tennyson 's description of the pools , from ‘ The Miller 's Daughter ’ , could easily have been written today : |