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Example sentences for "eleven years"

  • But the very first time I found myself before thirty or forty boys from nine to eleven years old, for that was the class allotted to me to teach, I felt thoroughly at home.

  • It was ten or eleven years afterwards--that is, four or five years after my departure--that the mother of these lads expressed her entire approval of the adamantine perseverance I had exhibited in my convictions.

  • Philip, eleven years of age, according to usage, took the title of Monsieur.

  • Henrietta had with her a very pretty daughter, eleven years of age.

  • The king selected for his wife Adelaide, the daughter of the Duke of Savoy, a remarkably graceful, beautiful, and intelligent child of eleven years.

  • There is another old record of a gastric fistula through which some aliment passed during the period of eleven years.

  • This poor creature worked along for eleven years, at the end of which time she was forced to bed, and died of symptoms of purulent peritonitis.

  • Smith speaks of a legal case in which a girl, eleven years old, being safely delivered of a living child, charged her uncle with rape.

  • Haymaker, the superintendent of the academy, who continued a period of eleven years.

  • McBRIDE During the next eight months the management of the institution devolved upon Mrs. McBride; and she continued to serve as matron until the spring of 1899, a period of eleven years.

  • Bridges, after serving and organizing Ebenezer church at Lehigh the previous year, located at Lukfata in the fall of 1903, and has been the local teacher and regular supply of the church, since that date, a period of eleven years.

  • The latter's son, eleven years of age, was sent to reside with X.

  • I have known of numerous instances in which children ten or eleven years of age have had sexual dreams; occasionally, even, I have been informed of the occurrence of such dreams in children of seven or eight years of age.

  • From the age of six to the age of eleven years, X.

  • The city Lemgo stood out longest, and persevered in its adherence to the Lutheran confession during an eleven years’ struggle with its prince, from A.

  • The age limit for boys has been advanced to eleven years by the School Committee of Boston, and to twelve years for newsboys and fourteen years for other street workers by the state of Wisconsin.

  • Could it be that man was not really drowned ten or eleven years ago?

  • A man whom O'Hanlon knew ten or eleven years ago, and was then drowned at the hideous Black Rock, appears to O'Hanlon in the same spot and same clothes as he had been last seen alive in.

  • The same coat, the same Scotch bonnet, the same trousers--not a thing altered since the first day he stood in my office, going on eleven years ago.

  • Ten or eleven years ago," said the solicitor, shaking his head in accord with his private thoughts rather than with his words.

  • In this short period of eleven years we were governed by two sovereigns, whose reigns, happily for the English people, were the shortest in our annals.

  • This person, during the leisure of eleven years of a French captivity, had found his most constant companion in a Shakespeare.

  • This boy was about ten or eleven years old; said his mother lived in Kent-street, and that he had not been home for a twelvemonth and better.

  • She said that she had come to Edinburgh to search for her son, a boy of eleven years old, but that she had been unable to find him, and that she was now quite destitute.

  • Eleven years later, in 1689, he passes off it for ever.

  • Eleven years previously, when the old statesman was at the height of his evil power, his brother had been appointed Constable of Dundee and presented with the estate of Dudhope, lying conveniently near to Claverhouse's few paternal acres.

  • His opportunities for schooling were limited, and at the age of eleven years he entered the employ of a grocer, with whom he remained ten years.

  • After a period of eleven years he resigned the office, retaining his directorship.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but the next moment; canst thou; constantly changing; each molecule; eleven children; eleven days; eleven hours; eleven hundred; eleven miles; eleven months; eleven years; eleventh century; free citizen; golden chain; good part; great disorder; hand leader; human natur; kind friend; memory serves; open prairie; poetic justice; pressure cylinder; terrific explosion; town meetin; war and