Example sentences of "[adj] years [adj] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tunnel , which is virtually free of neutral , or non-ionised , gas , is at least 1000 light years long and stretches from the Sun to the star Beta Canis Majoris and beyond . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S typical executive is male , 44 years old and has a salary of £30,355 ( including £4,826 in bonus pay ) , according to a comprehensive annual survey conducted by P-E Inbucon , writes Sarah Hogg . |
| 3 | The tomb is around 2,000 years old and bears the inscribed name ‘ Yusuf Bar Kaifas ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ As you know , I 'm an adequate , plain cook , but I 've neither the time nor the talent to produce a coq au vin like this one : it was produced by my neighbour , Mrs Neville , who is seventy-five years old and runs a thriving emergency cooking , house-sitting and general crisis-management service for the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 5 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 6 | Wendy from Countesthorpe in Leicester , is 18 years old and has a little daughter , Natasha , who was born in December 1988 . |
| 7 | She is sixteen years old and gets turned into a field two or three times a week . |
| 8 | Q Our son is 11 years old and attends a prep school as a boarder . |
| 9 | Joanne Graham is nine years old and comes from County Durham . |
| 10 | Gillian Gelling is nine years old and comes from Liverpool . |
| 11 | The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day . |
| 12 | However , the standard edition of Hobbes ' writings is nearly 150 years old and suffers from serious defects and omissions . |
| 13 | The resort is only 20 years old and grabs at any chance for a celebrity to add sparkle to its budding image as the Florida of the Nineties . |