Example sentences of "of a [num] year " in BNC.

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1 Diary of a fifteen year old 9th October 1993
2 Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days .
3 First tonight , Lothian detectives are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a fifteen year old Bathgate girl .
4 Meanwhile the funeral has been held of a fifteen year old girl who was killed in a crash involving a stolen car .
5 Now back to the inquest into the death of a fifteen year old hunt saboteur from Milton Keynes who was crushed by a horse box at a hunt in Cambridgeshire .
6 In the Solomon Islands , BGS geologists worked on the final phase of a six year mapping and mineral-exploration programme .
7 The parents of a nine year old girl who died while being treated at hospital say an internal inquiry was just a white wash .
8 Within the last fortnight , we have seen the release on parole of one offender after serving just 22 months of a five year sentence for sexual offences against at least a dozen young boys , and the sentencing of another man to life imprisonment after a sexual orgy resulting in the death of a nine year old .
9 I mean maybe you 're thinking of the sort of publicized cases of a nine year old , I believe it was , who 's got A levels in mathematics .
10 I mean maybe you 're thinking of the sort of publicized cases of a nine year old , I believe it was , who 's got A levels in mathematics .
11 The body of a sixty year old man has been discovered in a council flat , almost three months after he died of natural causes .
12 In October 1966 George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison after serving nearly five years of a 42 year sentence of imprisonment for spying for the Soviet Union .
13 In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish .
14 Sophisticated DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting , has already linked the 2 rapes of a 14 year old girl and a 19 year old woman .
15 Sophisticated DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting , has already linked the 2 rapes of a 14 year old girl and a 19 year old woman .
16 New Chinese energy initiatives include the restoration of a 2,000 year old aqueduct system and introducing solar energy installations in schools .
17 Outside the bathroom door the long dead news Is served again in dozens of reviews ; The colour sups dementedly parade Pictorial pickings from the past decade : A cast of horribly familiar faces , The winners of a hundred one-horse races , The media icons of a 10 year binge When loads of money was society 's hinge — Money for an image or a slogan ; Money — lots and lots — for Terry Wogan , And other stars who live the live of Riley : Madonna , Joan ( and Jackie ) Collins , Kylie …
18 Eddie Szuluk has just served 6 years of a 10 year sentence for drug offences .
19 He 's served 6 years of a 10 year stretch for armed robbery .
20 He 'd spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial and served 6 months of a 10 year sentence .
21 Relatives of a ninety-one year old widow left battered in her own home are pleading for the public to help catch her attacker .
22 A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner .
23 The third party claims have lessened with the retreat from the Convention for the Regulation of the Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities , and the acceptance by the parties at Madrid in 1991 of a fifty year ban on activities relating to mineral resources other than scientific research .
24 We describe the case of a 17 year old woman who was referred to our service for treatment of panic attacks .
25 Quite apart from the fact that the existing state of the sewers is hardly good enough , the assumption of a 100 year life-span for sewers becomes increasingly unrealistic .
26 On an acupuncture ward I watched a doctor insert long copper needles into the scalp of a one year old and saw the baby howl when every ten minutes the needles were twisted to stimulate the body energy .
27 An investigation has been launched into the death of a one year old boy .
28 • This 33 lb 12 oz pike was the result of a two year campaign at a Nottinghamshire gravel pit by Mansfield miner David Dare .
29 You can also ease initial strain on your cashflow by taking advantage of a two year ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ , during which you only pay interest on the loan and make no capital repayments .
30 They voted by 19 to 6 in favour of a two year moratorium , during which time a scientific committee will ‘ review the scientific and technical considerations relevant to the proposed amendments ’ .
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