Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the old lady finally died suddenly in her eighties , she felt utterly bereft . |
| 2 | Frank Jacques quoted the Harvey Memorial Lecture extensively and approvingly in his 1954–55 District Annual Report . |
| 3 | By the mid-seventeenth century it had become normal for the wealth of the old people to be transferred to the next generation when they retired , perhaps in their sixties , but for the retired couple to retain houseroom in the family home ; and in order to make disputes less likely , these retirement arrangements were increasingly recorded in deeds . |
| 4 | She was a calm , pleasant-faced lady with glasses , perhaps in her fifties , with a musical upper-class accent and an air of quiet confidence . |
| 5 | He is perhaps in his middle-fifties , silver-haired , authoritative . |
| 6 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 7 | The man was perhaps in his mid-fifties . |
| 8 | He 's won the Wargrave Regatta nine times in succession — the first to do so in its 126 year history . |
| 9 | Music began with the beating of a tabor and the whistle of pipes , and then the servers began trooping in in their dozens with great platters of heaped food and jugs of ale . |
| 10 | The court decision means the pair , who are only in their twenties , could make a substantial fortune from the device , which enables the user to modify a computer game and get more use from it . |
| 11 | These recently acquired spoils of war , added to the Trees ' well-documented generosity of girth and a general world-weariness alarming for men only in their mid-20s , lend the impression that a lifetime 's shift down that proverbial coal mine would be a less gruelling occupation . |
| 12 | The absence of Arundel and Huntingdon is especially interesting since both were only in their mid-thirties and neither showed any signs of infirmity in their subsequent military careers . |
| 13 | For her part she was under extreme pressure , still only in her twenties and supervising up to 160 Girls at any one point . |
| 14 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 15 | Mr Hoffman is only in his twenties . |
| 16 | And William was a very careful man , we may be sure : while they were still at 24 Wilmington Square , and he was still only in his twenties , he had the foresight to arrange for a Titford family grave at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington . |
| 17 | He 's only in his twenties , yeah he ought not , no it would n't be would it ? |
| 18 | After all , he 's only in his mid-sixties . ’ |
| 19 | He 's only in his sixties . |
| 20 | He was only in his forties and had four children . |
| 21 | I think he was only in his forties . |
| 22 | they were , they , his firm was folded up because , yeah it was a sudden death , he was only in his forties |
| 23 | Part of the problem was that I was only in my twenties when I did it , and therefore still quite young in their eyes . |
| 24 | He is still very much in our 1993 plans . |
| 25 | They stretched away in their thousands across the upturned acres of the cavern roof . |
| 26 | But he 's certainly not in his seventies ! |
| 27 | Such people , in Clarke 's view , exhibit either a failure of nerve or of imagination , History is littered with examples of eminences who said such items as the aeroplane or the telephone were impossible , Yet Clarke himself demonstrates , unwittingly perhaps another well-known human maxim : if something can go wrong , it probably will , Thus in his 1962 edition , he predicts that nuclear rockets , translating machines and efficient energy storage devices would be around by 1970 . |
| 28 | Sadly , she died of a brain haemorrhage in 1950 when she was scarcely in her twenties . |
| 29 | N.B. Whatever happens , the one virtual certainty is that people already in their mid-fifties have no cause for concern and would not have to postpone their retirement ! |
| 30 | When stardom struck , he was already in his thirties , the hair showed signs of receding and because it was brown Beatty taught him a trick with make-up shadow that reduced the emphasis of an enlarged forehead . |