Example sentences of "people over [art] age " in BNC.

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1 This is particularly true for some people over the age of 85 .
2 For example , one in five people over the age of 80 are likely to develop Alzheimer 's Disease , a form of senile dementia .
3 The figures show that in 1990 , there were 90,843 people over the age of 65 supported by local authorities in all types of accommodation ( of whom 87,652 were in their own or other authorities ' homes ) .
4 Of the 1,792 people over the age of 15 questioned by Public Attitude Survey , 7 per cent believed the law should be the exclusive preserve of Christianity .
5 Charles made his subjects swear a new form of allegiance to him as emperor , the vow being administered to all people over the age of twelve :
6 And the numbers of elderly people are on a steep increase : the number of people over the age of 85 will double to one million by the year 2000 .
7 One of the major changes to which our society must give meaning is the increasing number of people over the age of retirement , especially those in their 80s and 90s .
8 A recent poll conducted by Gallup of attitudes among people over the age of 65 found considerable anxiety about health care in old age .
9 The market concentrates on older consumers with the highest incomes , but there are nearly 15 million people over the age of 55 in the United Kingdom , and regrettably some of them are poor .
10 The Department of Health 's rules for Community Health Council Membership state that ‘ appointing bodies should not appoint people over the age of 70 unless there is a special reason : for example , an appointment by an organisation concerned mainly with elderly people . ’
11 What is sure , however , is that prevalence rises markedly with age ( see for example Kay et al , 1970 ; Campbell et al , 1983 ; Maule et al , 1984 ) , and may affect as many as 20 per cent of people over the age of 80 .
12 In 1379 , when Richard II levied poll tax to pay for his wars with the French , Skelton was recorded as having 137 people over the age of 15 years .
13 It is said to be present , although usually without symptoms , in one in ten people over the age of forty , and in one in three over the age of sixty .
14 People over the age of 60 are able to get tax relief on private medical insurance .
15 This created a relatively youthful population with large numbers of young people ( some of whom of course would die before full adulthood ) and relatively few people over the age of 50 .
16 Most of these cases will occur in people over the age of 60 .
17 I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were .
18 Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably .
19 There are probably more people over the age of 70 living in my constituency than in the constituencies of any other right hon. or hon. Member .
20 The John and Ceridwen Hughes Uwchaled award is given annually to individuals in recognition of outstanding service through the Welsh language , to young people over the age of 11 outside formal education .
21 Load of single people over the age of thirty .
22 First though , Help the Aged and the Influenza Monitoring Bureau have joined forces to encourage all people over the age of sixty five and those in high risk groups to get a flu jab .
23 Wendy Wakefield from Help the Aged says they were surprised by the results of a Morri survey which questioned seven hundred people over the age of sixty five about what they knew about flu .
24 er November , mid November , we 've got an assault course er based at Bicester barracks , er army barracks in Bicester , and we 're inviting er various people over the age of sixteen , who live in and around the Bicester and Oxford areas er as well as down into Aylesbury , er if they 'd like to come and take part , and it 'd be sponsored for the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association and the work that we do .
25 It started in the Autumn of eighty-eight , when Phil approached me and said , ‘ Look , we would like to consider putting our services that we do offer to finance in a more effective way ’ , running alongside that was a project being run by Oxfordshire Health Authority where they were sending postal surveys to elderly people ; people over the age of seventy erm sixty-five at one point , and were getting back a huge amount of information on their perceived needs .
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