Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 2 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
| 3 | Although the basic pattern of a twenty-five year lease remained largely intact , tenants were able to secure the right to terminate the lease before its expiry . |
| 4 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
| 5 | Other combinations of hotel and catering craft or supervisory qualifications and experience ( such as successful completion of a two year full-time craft course plus one year 's appropriate experience ) . |
| 6 | Jan , a divorced mother of a 12 year old son , is regarded as one of the best showbiz talent spotters in Australia . |
| 7 | He was born Vernon , the illegitimate son of a fourteen year old girl . |
| 8 | In the Solomon Islands , BGS geologists worked on the final phase of a six year mapping and mineral-exploration programme . |
| 9 | The attempt to cram sufficient experience of a five year span into a term of ten weeks brought with it superficiality and rush , leaving a guilty residue of feeling that not enough had been done thoroughly enough . |