Example sentences of "they [be] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are always on the look-out for promising pups because every year up to a dozen of our most experienced dogs retire when they are eight years old , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 2 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 3 | And we always let our prospective stallions have five mares when they are two years old so we can see what type of stock they throw . |
| 4 | By the time they are two years old they are sufficiently jungle-wise to live a completely independent life and find home ranges for themselves . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month . |
| 6 | So there undoubtedly a temptation to think , well let's not bother about that , let's pick them up when they are two years old and they 've survived this particularly hazardous first period . |
| 7 | The brochure stated clearly that while some children transferred back to mainstream schools , ‘ the majority remain until they are 16 years of age ’ . |
| 8 | Most people become infected with the virus before they are five years old , often from an innocent kiss from a parent or relative . ’ |
| 9 | Most ‘ retire ’ before they are four years old . |
| 10 | No vines may be brought into production for Champagne until they have attained their ‘ third leaf ’ , that is to say , when they are three years old . |
| 11 | By the time they are three years old , young chimps are attempting it themselves , but at this age they are still very inefficient , often using tools of the wrong size . |
| 12 | The young eagles are ready to leave the nest after just over two months but are not ready to breed until they are three years old . |
| 13 | It administers the 1958 and 1967 Public Records Acts which oblige government departments to maintain and select public records for permanent preservation and to transfer them to the PRO when they are 30 years old . |
| 14 | They have a large well-educated workforce , they are 20 years behind us in technology and are choosing English as their first foreign language with German second . ’ |
| 15 | The next tier is a long way back and though there is another tier below that again with a lot of potential , they are some years away . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , they are light years ahead . |
| 17 | ‘ Then after a while it becomes a habit , like those teachers who speak to everyone as though they 're five years old . ’ |
| 18 | They 're four years behind . |
| 19 | They 're two years old maximum . |
| 20 | These cups have lasted they 're three years older than you are . |
| 21 | And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today . |
| 22 | They 're Italian , they 're 25 years old but at the same time brand new … |
| 23 | Football can be a cruel game and the undeniable , unpalatable truth is that Robson 's key players are not getting any better than they were two years ago ( with the arguable exception of Shilton ) , and certainly no younger . |
| 24 | Although the animal was slow to mature ( some claimed that it would keep growing until it was six years old ) the new society was able to show that properly managed steers could reach market weights before they were two years old . |
| 25 | Since no mines , oil wells nor factories have invested in significant modernisation few are making appreciably more convertible currency than they were two years ago . |
| 26 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 27 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 28 | " The Session find that there is no suitable person to undertake the duties of precentor , and that they are now in the same position as they were two years ago , when Mrs McIver took up the work . |
| 29 | That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old ! |
| 30 | Er anything special you know that sor children growing up and you know fathers not seeing them or wives having babies wh which you know they had n't seen perhaps till they were two years old . |