Example sentences of "year old and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these songs — Reach Out I 'll Be There , Just My Imagination , It 's the Same Old Song , Ai n't Too Proud to Beg — are over 25 years old and yet they still send an intoxicating gust of fresh air through the house . |
| 2 | There are 21.7 million men in the UK over 15 years old and over two thirds of them wet shave . |
| 3 | Find us a grave , they had instructed , Neglected , about ten to twelve years old and completely anonymous . |
| 4 | That was the puzzling thing that happened to Peggy Pringle , who was nearly nine years old and just longed to join the Pack to which her friends belonged . |
| 5 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 6 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 7 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 8 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 9 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 10 | She remembered how Adam , seven years old and already stronger-willed than anyone could cope with , had furiously affirmed that Jake would come back . |
| 11 | Pat and David have known each other since they were eight years old and astonishingly they say they always knew they would marry ! |
| 12 | Gary Martin from Tewksbury is three years old and profoundly deaf . |
| 13 | Tyrer said : ‘ I played rugby league until I was 17 years old and even played for Wigan Under-11s at Wembley , where I kicked six goals . |
| 14 | He 's been playing since he was eleven years old and even now scores regularly for his team . |
| 15 | ‘ Love 's Theme ’ live , now 18 years old and hopelessly dated , does what pop music is supposed to do , which is to make you feel good about yourself and momentarily released from the impossible contradictions , demands and sadness of life . |
| 16 | Worst of all are the Czech Republic and Slovakia , where 80 per cent of pine trees under 60 years old and almost 50 per cent of oak trees have been damaged by air pollution . |
| 17 | I am 36 years old and originally from New York State . |
| 18 | I am 19 years old and much prefer listening to the great Pink Floyd than most of the modern day trash ( Gulp again — IM ) . |
| 19 | Charcoal and bone remains have already been dated at 20 500 years old and further remains found beneath these are now being analysed . |
| 20 | According to Lorton , the Newleys ' burglar-alarm system was ten or fifteen years old and long overdue for retirement . |
| 21 | Reg Finch , another swift promotion , forty years old and very decisive , had taken-over Dalby 's old sector in the Mediterranean covering France , Spain , Italy , Turkey and Switzerland . |
| 22 | Lavender Cottage is 400 years old and very picturesque . |
| 23 | She was about thirty years old and very beautiful . |
| 24 | He is six years old and very forward going and appears to love his jumping . |
| 25 | As the original trophy , 113 years old and now so wafer thin it can be easily dented , was taken away to be placed in the Ulster Museum , nostalgic thoughts flashed through the mind of many great Cup finals , of glory and tragedy , jubilation and disappointment . |
| 26 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 27 | Erm , and that er what causes erm David Lewis to tell the sorts of stories about he tells is this kind of hideous accident that happened to him when he was three years old and then was exaggerated by his |
| 28 | This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older . |
| 29 | I do n't want to be treated as if I 'm three years old and backward at that ! |
| 30 | Now eighty-seven years old and recently widowed , Mrs Higby remained in Cleveland . |