Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | An artist 's impression of a man who attacked a twelve year old girl has been released by police . |
| 2 | Here detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 3 | Detectives in Mansfield are hunting a man who attacked a fifteen year old girl near a hospital . |
| 4 | The reduction in exploration drilling particularly affected Scottish Rig Repairers who experienced a difficult year due to the low level of rig conversion and modification activities . |
| 5 | A reward 's now on offer for anyone who can help police track down a man who mugged a 64 year old woman paying respects in Banbury cemetery . |
| 6 | Police are hunting a man who raped a fourteen year old girl as she walked home late at night . |
| 7 | Tolkien had been brought from South Africa at the age of four ; Lewis was a Belfast man schooled in England for whom , like his Mend Tolkien , the Western Front had proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life ; Charles Williams , an Oxford publisher who died in 1945 , was a Londoner ; Dorothy Sayers , who died a dozen years later , the daughter of an Anglican clergyman ; and Owen Barfield a London solicitor who shared with his friends a passion for all things lexical , and above all for the etymology of words . |
| 8 | One of the most poignant studies is of a graceful ten-year-old girl who drowned a few years later in a Mississippi boating accident . |
| 9 | What work of fiction could possibly bring together Toulon , who had a dreadful year , and Biarritz , a side whose parts — including the incomparable Blanco — were always greater than the whole ? |
| 10 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 11 | Er the judge who said an eight year old sex victim was no angel , you remember the one of course , yesterday freed two men who had intercourse with a thirteen year old . |
| 12 | Oxford City Council received their award from Sir Jimmy Savile , who launched a special year of workplace safety . |