Example sentences of "year old and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 5 | King , 27 years old and a Baptist minister , was a great orator and an inspiring leader . |
| 6 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 7 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 8 | She was about forty years old and a little fat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 11 | Some Allerce trees are up to four thousand years old and a hundred and fifty foot tall and come from a very threatened environment |
| 12 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |
| 13 | In Casey 's pub , now over 100 years old and a popular haunt for fishermen and folk musicians , the proprietors , sisters Joan and Anne Casey , recalled the happier days when visitors packed the Lake Hotel , which was run by their parents , and the Melvin . |
| 14 | Thus , an 80 year old and a 40 year old should have an equal chance of being offered cardiac surgery in equivalent circumstances . |
| 15 | Abdul Shahid , a Bengali-speaking five year old and a beginner in English , wanted to show off his three sand pies lined up in order of size . |
| 16 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |