Example sentences of "year [adj] and [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 2 | Though the engine was 17 years old and had been used to pulling 40-tonne loads at 60mph , Mr Tomlinson did n't need to touch it . |
| 3 | He was sixty years old and had been the parish priest for over thirty years . |
| 4 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 5 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 6 | I am twenty years old and have been educated in Britain . |
| 7 | I am a male working with young children under eight years old and have been involved , to a greater or lesser degree for almost ten years . |
| 8 | Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students . |
| 9 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |