Example sentences of "[adj] 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 | The guv'nor , the mastersmith , were an old man over eighty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In each decade of the twentieth century , fewer men over 65 have been entered in the censuses as in gainful employment . |
| 5 | More than one in three men over 70 with acute renal failure had prostatic disease as a cause ( 27 out of 72 ) . |
| 6 | As a married man over 75 and on a modest income , you are allowed the first £6,875 free of tax . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | The purpose of the census is to list all men over 20 fit for military service . |
| 11 | By 1965 it appeared that 48 per cent of retired men over 65 , but only 24 per cent of single women over 60 and 11 per cent of widows over pensionable age had employers ' pensions , younger women predominating among those women who had a pension in their own right ( Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance , 1966 , p. 154 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |