Example sentences of "old [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew vaguely there was a wonderful person everyone was talking about , but who could be more wonderful to a wide-eyed seven year old than the sight of their own father guarding a flag with gold tassels ? |
| 2 | I was six years old and the scene was the dim and secluded scullery in my grandparents ' house . |
| 3 | Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work . |
| 4 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 5 | Although the idea of WCY is over a year old and the year is now a month old , Britain has only just announced its six-man committee to represent the country 's interests . |
| 6 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 7 | One went as Miss Rochdale in these old and the other was Miss Trendsetter . |
| 8 | TWO OF THE YOUNGEST REFUGEES : THE BOY IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND THE GIRL SIX PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |
| 9 | A typical Neolithic mine is not very different from our contemporary idea of a mine even though these are over 4000 years old and the interior of the mine at Grimes Graves is shown in Figure 6.6 . |
| 10 | Within a period of about 20Myr ( taking the Ediacaran faunas as 560Myr old and the base of the Cambrian as 540Myr old ) , the oceans changed from habitats housing a rich but effectively microscopic biota , to one teeming with macroscopic animals engaged in a wide range of ecologies and presumably showing a degree of behavioural sophistication . |
| 11 | On examination of the bones he decided that they were very old and the smell that exuded was particularly obnoxious . |
| 12 | Then , pointing to the Labrador , who had already arrived , Sophie said , ‘ She 's ten years old and the pet of a handicapped child . ’ |
| 13 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 14 | It is possible to foster pups with a mother whose natural litter would be 2 — 3 days old but the success rate is lower . |
| 15 | The world grows old but the Bastard Boy keeps his perfection . |
| 16 | It marks not the dying of something old but the birth of something new . |
| 17 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
| 18 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 19 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Brian , their youngest child , was born in Rugby in England and was four years old when the couple decided to move to Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Christopher and Matthew Key were just four months old when the accident happened . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 26 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 27 | Government concern about the problem of drink-related offending is as old as the Probation Service . |
| 28 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 29 | Ageism … is as old as the history of the family … men used family as a way of colonizing women as a class . |
| 30 | The building of small , defensive forts , or blockhouses , is as old as the history of formal warfare . |