Example sentences of "year [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | b By the age of 12 years old a child will have eaten about half a pound weight of coal-tar in the form of food colouring and dye . |
| 2 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 3 | By 19 years old the children smoked as much as their parents — 28 per cent of boys indulged compared with 36 per cent of girls . |
| 4 | Almost 15pc of single and double deckers in service in the county are more than 15 years old the limit of their economic life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I was four years old the book reads : ‘ Very fond of dressing up , especially in an old nylon nightdress ’ — ‘ the princess dress … ’ |
| 7 | If 5,000 people ring the Samaritans each day , within 15 years half the adult population of this country will have been at their wits ' end . |
| 8 | In the period 1821–1825 , for example , the number of new appointments each year ranged from a low of 237 to a high of 494 , but even in one of the better years such a total divided into thirty shares was not going to permit even the best supplied politician to buy his election . |
| 9 | However , in the past few years such a model of enacting legislation after a wide-ranging commission that hears evidence from professionals in the field has not been followed . |
| 10 | In the years 1880–1913 the number of land purchasing agencies and co-operatives associated with the Land Purchase Bank was to rise from about 120 to nearly 300 . |
| 11 | In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ . |
| 12 | Obviously this was no problem to the American buyers who were out in force and I wondered whether within fifty years all the antiques in Britain would end up in America and we would be confined to department-store replicas . |
| 13 | cos I worked two years all the time I had a few bob for that extra that 's all . |
| 14 | Not paying it for years and years all the time . |
| 15 | It was explained to me that over the years all the planes on the green sward had landed by mistake , assuming that it would be solid enough to allow a take-off . |
| 16 | The first canals were constructed between 1757 and 1761 in order to transport coal from the mines to the towns and factories ; in the years 1791–7 the canal system expanded rapidly , and by 1815 covered most of England 's transport requirements in the industrial field . |
| 17 | Equally — perhaps more seriously — the relative value of the basic pension has been falling because it has been related to prices , not incomes , so that unless steps are taken , by the year 2025 the value of the basic pension as a proportion of gross earnings could have fallen by half . |
| 18 | Well she said quiet time of the year this a bit . |
| 19 | By the year 2020 the number is expected to rise by at least the same amount to reach nearly 100 million over-60s in the 12 member states . |
| 20 | There 's one thing about it , only been a year old the heating is in good condition , you 're warm in there . |
| 21 | A comparison of historical records with modern data revealed that in 1893 , the fish did not reach maturity until they were 75 centimetres long , but last year half the females were fertile at 50 centimetres . |
| 22 | In the financial year 1866–7 the cost of the United Kingdom supply services was £39 million . |
| 23 | During Year III a number of areas are studied in detail . |
| 24 | From year three the maximum is £500 . |
| 25 | It dates from the time of the Civil War when many registers were not properly kept ; thus , under the year 1647 the vicar of Hooton Pagnell ( Yorks. ) wrote in his register : |
| 26 | By the end of the academic year 1981–2 a total of sixteen main independent centres for the provision of two-year part-time programmes leading to the Certificate in Education ( FE ) had been validated by the CNAA . |
| 27 | In the financial year 1984–5 the North-West Water Authority carried out capital-works dredging on 21 miles of river in its care . |
| 28 | During the academic year 1990–91 the group focused on the theme of Ruskin , tradition and architecture , and invited the contribution of visiting speakers from other institutions . |
| 29 | In his Handsworth Comprehensive School , he was fairly consistent : ‘ I was in the A-stream from the first year all the way through . ’ |
| 30 | The company has its own customer information system named CARGOLINK and by the end of the present year all the company 's offices will be using this system thus enabling the organisation to control each individual consignment during the transport from booking to final delivery to end user . |