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Example sentences for "fourteen years"

  • At fourteen years of age he was sold to a gentleman as concubine; and then, though food and clothes were not wanting, he had to put up with the scoldings and floggings of the wife, who one day burnt him with a hot iron.

  • His practice covers a period of fourteen years, in which he has made continuous advancement.

  • Judge Saint-Pierre has been the organizer of the Canadian Veterans as a body and has been their honorary president ever since their organization some fourteen years ago.

  • Jonathan's real high priesthood lasted seven years more, these two seven years will make up fourteen years, which I suppose was Josephus's own number in this place, instead of the four in our present copies.

  • Hang it, if you had stayed at home it would have taken me fourteen years to get the material.

  • It would indeed be an absent-minded family if the parents, and the sister and brothers ranging up to fourteen years of age, should drive off leaving Little Sam, age four, behind.

  • He has a brother, Desmond, two years his junior, and another, Edward, who is fourteen years old.

  • Early last fall in one of the libraries the librarian met by appointment a group of girls from eleven to fourteen years old.

  • All three were tried at the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, passing some time in Newgate en route.

  • Robson was found guilty, and sentenced to two terms of transportation, one for twenty and one for fourteen years.

  • The men selected for transportation were always under fifty, and were taken from those sentenced for life or fourteen years.

  • They say your eldest could neither read nor write at fourteen years of age.

  • He was shipwrecked, and lost his legs by freezing, fourteen years ago.

  • She did think of this night, fourteen years ago.

  • One married woman had been there fourteen years.

  • They are taken on at fourteen years of age, and are paid 4s.

  • Learners are taken at thirteen or fourteen years of age.

  • After a vacancy of fourteen years, in 454, St. Deogratias was consecrated archbishop.

  • A boy of fourteen years of age led among them an ascetic life of great perfection.

  • At fourteen years of age he was sent to Salamanca, and trained up to the law.

  • His own statement "fourteen years" is not to be set aside on such slight grounds as this.

  • They are owned by the De Beers Company, a consolidation of diamond properties arranged by Mr. Rhodes twelve or fourteen years ago.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bronze medal; considerable degree; could confide; fell upon; fine country; foreign lands; fourteen days; fourteen feet; fourteen guns; fourteen hours; fourteen hundred; fourteen inches; fourteen miles; fourteen thousand; fourteen years; fourteenth century; future action; horizontal section; may seem; money would; must suffer; returns home; stand upright; these facts; throbbing heart; will inform