Example sentences of "age [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult Angels are rarely sold , and expensive , but youngsters reach breeding age after about six to eight months . |
| 2 | This trend has a maximum deviation from true age of about nine hundred years too recent at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC . |
| 3 | also indicated an age of about 200,000 years . |
| 4 | In human terms , he 'd reached the age of about 30 — a critical time for self-reflection , I remember ! |
| 5 | From the age of about seven or eight , children , particularly girls , tend to form inseparable friendships . |
| 6 | From the age of about 40 , people are increasingly ashamed of their ageing . |
| 7 | From the age of about three , at bedtime story-time , Shanti would often ask , ‘ Tell me about when you fetched me from London . ’ |
| 8 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 9 | By the age of about five years a cat starts to lose its range of hearing and when the animal has become elderly , in feline terms , it is often nearly deaf . |
| 10 | The most basic was in the period up to the age of about two years , the sensori-motor stage , when the world is explored physically — all that waving of arms and legs , sucking , and ( later ) crawling . |
| 11 | It is in the next stage , from the age of about twelve years , that children develop the skills of formal thought and logical reasoning . |
| 12 | Freud 's phases are first the oral , up to the age of about one-and-a-half years when all activity is concentrated on the mouth , on sucking , and on taking in to oneself . |
| 13 | Suitable for babies up to the age of about nine months . |
| 14 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 15 | Wanting to remain a child becomes unfeasible even to the most stupid old beard at the age of about 35 ; they eventually give up and accept they were born to be schoolteachers . |
| 16 | My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss . |
| 17 | By the age of about 4 months a baby is able to push food to the back of the mouth and swallow it . |
| 18 | I spent my whole childhood — from the age of about seven until the day I got my record contract — having rows with my parents … specifically my father , because he 's not very musical , to put it mildly . |
| 19 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 20 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 21 | Group C , in contrast to the Rowdies group , consisted of rather older boys and young men up to the age of about 25 . |
| 22 | Looking at their names , I wondered about their nationality , and the booklets tells us that they are in fact ‘ of mixed Turkish/Spanish parentage ’ and that from the age of about ten their training was as the Paris Conservatoire , the Frankfurt Musikhochschule , under Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and finally at the Juilliard School , New York . |
| 23 | Their age at interview varied from 17 to 36 , giving an average age of about 24 for both females and males . |
| 24 | Consider how Shamdev first behaved when rescued from the forest at the age of about 5 : |
| 25 | Well that 's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine , but pretty soon you 'd have to do something about it , would n't you ? |
| 26 | As we saw earlier , Piaget argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven years ( i.e. , they do not understand that B because A and A because B mean different things ) . |
| 27 | On the basis of these results , Emerson argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven or eight years . |
| 28 | It 's quite a common condition , mostly affecting people under the age of about 30 , both sexes equally , and obviously can be very distressing . |
| 29 | Beyond the age of about 55 , to an increasing degree in older people , it is found that previous premarital experience of sex decreases , especially among women . |
| 30 | By " childhood " we mean here the years between the age of about two years and the beginning of puberty . |