Example sentences of "man over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father , a hale old man over seventy , with a fresh colour and benignant expression , was sitting at the table finishing his meal . |
| 2 | As a married man over 75 and on a modest income , you are allowed the first £6,875 free of tax . |
| 3 | Rape is the most gender specific of all crimes : only a man over 14 can be the actual perpetrator , only a woman the victim . |
| 4 | Within the next two generations a man over six feet will be an oddity rather than a subject of envy . |
| 5 | If you are a man over 60 , however , you will automatically get contribution credits from the tax year in which you reach 60 . |
| 6 | This is the best ‘ bargain offer ’ pensioners have ever had , and any woman over 60 or man over 65 should take advantage of it if possible . |
| 7 | The guv'nor , the mastersmith , were an old man over eighty . |
| 8 | Secondly , in accordance with the Wolfenden recommendations Clause 2 of the Bill set a penalty of five years imprisonment for the offence of buggery committed by a man over 21 with a consenting youth over 16 . |
| 9 | The maximum penalty for gross indecency committed by a man over 21 with someone aged under 21 would be increased from two to five years , as would be the penalty for the offence of attempting to procure or procuring a man under 21 to commit an act of gross indecency . |
| 10 | The attitude of Judge Blencowe toward his servants is suggested by his treatment of a man over ninety employed to break rocks . |
| 11 | It also approved , however , the mobilization of all men over 18 , under the supervision of a new national campaign centre ( created by a Council of State decree on April 27 ) . |
| 12 | So why are men over 55 not being screened for prostatic cancer now if a reliable screening method is available ? |
| 13 | Obvious indicators of this are the numbers with occupational pensions : in 1973 only 60 per cent of men over 55 in full-time employment belonged to a pension scheme run by their current employer . |
| 14 | In terms of the age distribution , the elasticity of expected duration with respect to benefits is 0.18 for men under 20 , decreases with age to a value of 0.06 for men over 55 ; NNS found the effect to be largest for the teenagers with a value of 0.65 . |
| 15 | The elasticity of expected duration with respect to unemployment benefits is 0.18 for teenage men , around 0.14 for men aged 20–44 , 0.08 for men aged 45–54 and 0.06 for men over 55 ; ( vi ) the elasticity of hazard rate with respect to unemployment benefits is estimated to be -1.19 , which is nearly double that of NNS . |
| 16 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 17 | After the Lateran Council all men over fifteen and women over twelve were to confess annually to their own priest ( permission was needed for confession to another ) and were to take communion each Easter . |
| 18 | More than one in three men over 70 with acute renal failure had prostatic disease as a cause ( 27 out of 72 ) . |
| 19 | The excess for gastric cancer was noted only for men over 70 years of age . |
| 20 | Acute illness episodes were also significant , restricting the activities of men over 75 for an average 47 days each year , and of women for an average 61 days each year — compared with 23 days and 29 days respectively for men and women of all ages . |
| 21 | There is also a tendency to prefer married men ( single men over 30 are considered somewhat suspect ) , and wives are often asked to appear before selection committees . |
| 22 | There is also a very big difference in the offer arrival rate in the young and old segments of the market , with the under-25-year old men facing an offer rate of about 12 to 15 times that of men over 24 years of age . |
| 23 | For all age groups of men over 24 , widowers and the single and divorced have suicide rates about three times greater than married men . |
| 24 | He was wearing a Levi sweatshirt and a pair of jeans without showing a belly bulge between them , something few men over forty-five can do . |
| 25 | Above : Men over 50 are at risk of developing prostate disease . |
| 26 | I have heard or read estimates varying from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of the adult population , " most young people " , " all women at the menopause " and " all men over 50 " . |
| 27 | The purpose of the census is to list all men over 20 fit for military service . |
| 28 | Even in the 1900s the national census returns show over 60 per cent of men over 65 employed , in England , the United States , and France . |
| 29 | The proportion in work had begun to fall , however , and from the 1930s dropped rapidly : according to official figures , today in England a mere 7 per cent of men over 65 remain employed . |
| 30 | As a result , in the sixty years from 1851 the proportion of old people living in institutions almost doubled , rising to over 7 per cent of men over 65 and nearly 10 per cent of those over 75 , and slightly over half this figure for women . |