Example sentences of "year [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would seem that for too many years little or no research was done on TB and now we do n't seem to have the answers when the questions are being asked . |
| 2 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 3 | The Spinal Tap film may be over ten years old but the traits which it parodies still seem to be very much in evidence today . |
| 4 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 5 | During a debate , the party was reminded that one in 20 Labour members is under 25 years old while the average age of the party is 45 . |
| 6 | Due to the realistic graphics and sound Wolfenstein 3D is only available to those over 13 years old so no postal orders will be accepted . |
| 7 | After all Stonehenge was thousands of years old before the first bus-load pulled up . |
| 8 | The tropical rainforest tree pictured on the front of the leaflet was at least 400 years old when a chainsaw cut it down . |
| 9 | When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) . |
| 10 | You were six years old when the First World War began ; later you were to live through some of the worst days of the blitz in Berlin . |
| 11 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 12 | A child 's first lessons occur when she or he is 6 or 7 years old when the ruwang gathers a group of boys and girls together to teach them ta'kwakomena ( consciousness , will , responsibility ) , or basically social morality . |
| 13 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 14 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 15 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 16 | Special considerations : the appellant was 20 years old when the original community service order was made , and was 21 when it was revoked . |
| 17 | Brian , their youngest child , was born in Rugby in England and was four years old when the couple decided to move to Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 19 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 20 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 21 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 22 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 23 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 24 | King , 27 years old and a Baptist minister , was a great orator and an inspiring leader . |
| 25 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 26 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 27 | She was about forty years old and a little fat . |
| 28 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 29 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 30 | Some Allerce trees are up to four thousand years old and a hundred and fifty foot tall and come from a very threatened environment |