Example sentences of "of [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite . |
| 2 | There are some areas of medical activity whose beneficiaries are almost invariably of advanced years and whose practitioners could thereby be claimed to favour older citizens . |
| 3 | What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years . |
| 4 | But to me despair is a permanent part of man , induced by that spectre of three-score years and ten . |
| 5 | He did so with the support of the southern Saxons and , after a reign of eleven years and seven months ( HE IV , 5 ) , Hlothhere died from wounds received in battle either on 6 February 685 ( HE IV , 26 ) ( if , as Bede believed , he became king in July 673 ) or 686 ( if he did not become king until 674 ) . |
| 6 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 7 | Mr calculations on the other hand split into two periods , one of eight years and one of nine . |
| 8 | A child born in Denmark will live an average of 75 years and has less than a one in 100 chance of dying before age one . ’ |
| 9 | Simple photographs , perceived to have little artistic quality are afforded copyright protection for only twenty-five years after death whereas editorial photographs and ‘ artistic ’ photographs are given periods of protection of fifty years and seventy years after death , respectively . |
| 10 | Who takes the promises of a , a child of immature years and yet erm articulate ? |
| 11 | The Greek male lives on average to the age of 79.2 years and the French woman to 84.2 years of age . |
| 12 | Old age can cover a period often of 30–35 years or more : those just entering their retirement will be a generation younger than some of the oldest citizens . |
| 13 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 14 | Adding to his work of 30 years before he proved Galois ' assertion that if a finite group G contains pm elements , p being a prime , when G contains a subgroup of order p . |
| 15 | The first crop , taken out at intervals of 30 years or more , was that of standard trees for timber production . |
| 16 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 17 | This means that it takes an average of 12 years and $231 million to develop a new drug . |
| 18 | It has a duration of 12 years and the current yield to maturity is 10 per cent . |
| 19 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton last night prepared the country for a painful package of tax increases and spending cuts , saying he was trying to ‘ change a direction of 12 years and take a new course ’ for the economy that would quickly provide half a million new jobs . |
| 20 | In a compulsory registration area a lease granted for a term of forty years or more must be registered at HM Land Registry ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s123 ) . |
| 21 | She has also provided some normative information based on a study of 40 normally developing children between the ages of 2 years and 2 years and 11 months . |
| 22 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 23 | The South Osetians , we were told , can live to the ripe old age of 140 years or so , due to lack of stress in their lives … a far cry from London living . |
| 24 | Between 1394 and 1396 negotiations continued , and in March 1396 the two sides agreed to a truce of twenty-eight years and the marriage of Richard II to one of Charles VI 's daughters , Isabella , who was to bring with her a large dowry . |
| 25 | Hugh and Joyce Gardiner have been with Timex for a total of 44 years and never believed that their fight could have reached such a pitch . |
| 26 | It 's going to be in the order of 100 years before the site 's completely cleared . |
| 27 | It 's going to be in the order of 100 years before the whole site 's cleared . |
| 28 | A Prudential savings plan , taken out for a term of 10 years or more , is the ideal way to save for future events . |
| 29 | The fife sentence prisoners are not the only ones serving long sentences ; Maidstone also contained 133 men serving sentences of 10 years or more when I visited . |
| 30 | This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period . |