Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been two month old . |
| 2 | The lecturer may have been 20 years older , wealthier , and inevitably wiser , but that is often why the student chose to sleep with him . |
| 3 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 4 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Our daughter would have been 29 years old when this person will be walking the streets again , ’ said 51-year-old Norman Squire at his home in Arundel , West Sussex . |
| 6 | It would be hard to find an artist more suited to the political needs of museum exhibitions in the early 1990s than Wifredo Lam , who would have been ninety years old this year . |