Example sentences of "a [num] year old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five years ago , that team of scientists and electronics engineers charged with the awesome task of producing such a piece of equipment , included a thirty-seven year old Texan electronics engineer , whose star was rapidly rising in another quarter . |
| 2 | Erm if ever I say if ever get a fifty year old in front of me I say , Hey let's prove them wrong . |
| 3 | Mrs Margaret Johnson , a 32 year old housewife living in Sutton Coldfield , came on like a country western singer . |
| 4 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 5 | The woman has been identified as a 32 year old from the Bristol area , who 'd been missing since early on Friday , but detectives wo n't name her until her family have been told . |
| 6 | In answer to one question , Duncan MacIndeor , a 75 years old roadman from Kilmeny said , " I was a farmer at Airidh-Ghuairidh for 23 years . |
| 7 | For example , a 70 year old person living alone would have their income made up to £53.40 a week . |
| 8 | In McGregor v Adcock 51 TC 692 , decided in 1977 , a 70 year old farmer sold five of his 35 acres for development , and the Court held that there had been a sale of assets of the business and not part of the business , thus denying retirement relief . |
| 9 | The military also opened fire on a women 's demonstration in the village of Beit Hanoun where a 70 year old woman was beaten by soldiers . |
| 10 | The magistrates were told that from Febrary this year , until early September , he 'd been caught shoplifting , he 'd attacked police , kicked a police car , stolen a handbag from a 70 year old woman who was now afraid to go out , and caused criminal damage . |
| 11 | In Lisburn , a 70 year old woman died after she was struck by a car at Queens Road shortly after noon . |
| 12 | At the Raja 's insistence Tara was chained up to a 500 year old tree . |
| 13 | Behold the Mona Lisa and a 500 year old mystery solved . |
| 14 | Finally , Terry Steventon , a fifty-five year old electrical engineer , writes : |
| 15 | The problems of changing from a forty year old state economy to a free market were presented recently at the HCIMA London Branch German Dinner , held in the University of North London Training Restaurant by Horst Leyer representing HCIMA Germany . |
| 16 | In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ there is no chasm between the opinions and ethics of a forty year old and an eighteen year old . |
| 17 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 18 | The headstone of a 2 year old moves the poet to observe : |
| 19 | Jonathan Thomas was 21 when he died from heroin poisoning , devastating his family and leaving behind a 2 year old son . |
| 20 | The Dutch publisher Atlas is to bring out the translation of a debut novel , Essays in Love , by a 22 year old , Swiss-born English writer , Alain de Botton , in August — nearly six months before publication in the UK by Macmillan is due . |
| 21 | The previous day a 22 year old , a 19 year old and a 17 year old were shot by a state trooper when they tried to sell cocaine worth $50,000 to a couple of undercover policemen in a car park . |
| 22 | In the meantime a 22 year old Cheltenham man is awaiting trial for his murder . |
| 23 | A 22 year old prisoner is critically ill in hospital tonight after apparently setting himself on fire in his cell . |
| 24 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 25 | Not least of these is the achievement of a 53 year old , who resembled nothing so much ( yaks apart ) as the reincarnation of General Bruce and weighed 16 stone at the outset of the expedition , in getting to that height . |
| 26 | Jan , a divorced mother of a 12 year old son , is regarded as one of the best showbiz talent spotters in Australia . |
| 27 | These should include asking the children themselves how to solve the problem , feeding back their own views to them , and enacting effective laws and enforcing them ( in a recent survey carried out by the local trading standards department of 54 premises selling cigarettes in Oxford a 12 year old was able to buy cigarettes in 13 of them ) . |
| 28 | The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father . |
| 29 | The design came from the sketchpad of a 12 year old Milton Keynes schoolboy . |
| 30 | This is Breeze , a 12 year old alsatian dog found by RSPCA officers locked in a damp filthy backyard shed . |