Example sentences of "he was [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was away three days . |
| 2 | But like in the statement she said he was erm a , original statement she said he was approximately thirty years of age . |
| 3 | The dog was taken to a Hamilton vet , Ian Megahy , who found he was over five kilos under weight . |
| 4 | He was over fourteen pounds born . |
| 5 | He was already fifty-five years old when he took up his first corporate post , as technical director of C.A. Parsons , manufacturers of electrical generators , transformers and turbines . |
| 6 | Joe first appeared on stage and on TV when he was just five years old . |
| 7 | Born in Edgware , in greater London , in 1952 , Andy moved to inner London when he was just two years old . |
| 8 | He was just 76 votes short of the quota in the Oldpark Ward on the first count , but won his place a short time later . |
| 9 | As a child he was kicked out of school for various incidents , including throwing a desk at a teacher when he was just nine years old . |
| 10 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 11 | He was nearly two metres tall , with dark eyes and hair . |
| 12 | As a result , Richard Baxter had to spent much of his boyhood living with his maternal grandfather in Rowton , near High Ercall , about 10 miles away , until he was nearly ten years old . |
| 13 | He was barely five feet six inches tall ; a bullet would kill him ; he opened his bowels daily like everyone else . |
| 14 | When he was barely one year old , Nicholson 's mother died and he was put in the care of his aunt Mary , on her farm at South Carlton , near Lincoln . |
| 15 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 16 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 17 | So I did just ask him er just come to me right out of the blue when he was here one night . |
| 18 | We never seemed to see anything strange in the fact that he was maybe 10 years older than us . |
| 19 | He was often ten minutes late , as if the minutes had been timed exactly . |
| 20 | While he was out one day , a phone call was made to his Herne Hill home asking him to go straight to an audition at the Cambridge Theatre , London . |
| 21 | The 16-year-old central defender , who captained Cleveland schools last season won the shot by nearly two metres with a put of 12.25 metres , while he was almost two metres clear of his nearest rival in the javelin , with a throw of 39.85 metres . |
| 22 | He was almost two years old when he came to me . |
| 23 | Nigel Mansell put in a scorching lap in the opening qualifying session … the fastest ever at the Northamptonshire track … he was almost two seconds quicker than his team mate Riccardo Patrese … recording an average speed of more than one hundred and forty-eight miles an hour . |
| 24 | His constitution was now in place , his political position at home was very strong , but he was almost seventy years of age and could hardly afford to sit back and wait for a long-term transformation to solve Algeria 's problems . |
| 25 | He was almost 60 years of age and had been a fugitive for 22 years , during which time he had had no permanent home , no source of income and little respite from danger . |
| 26 | He was n't as close to Elsie as he had hoped but he was about two years closer and that was something . |
| 27 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 28 | He was about six feet , went eighteen stone at least . |
| 29 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 30 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |