Example sentences of "year older [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna Ford is three years older than the man who will now feature constantly in her news bulletins , and her former rival Angela Rippon is 48 . |
| 2 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 3 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 4 | One of the bells is in fact 82 years older than the building . |
| 5 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 6 | Graham Gooch , with whom Gower seems locked in a strange love-hate relationship , is three years older than the boy David . |
| 7 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 8 | The records of female social workers trained in early twentieth-century Birmingham , however , showed that only 22 per cent of educated women had married and that their average age at marriage was 34 years , some nine years older than the norm . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Hence , if one considers a long-lived tree , say a three-hundred-year-old oak , the innermost heartwood will give a radiocarbon result three hundred years older than the sapwood . |
| 11 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 12 | Louis was a year older than the Stone boy , and the difference in age between seven and eight is quite remarkable when seen through juvenile eyes . |