Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] at [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer especially to the case of a constituent , a boy who can not walk , talk , feed himself or do anything for himself , and will never be any different , as a result of meningitis at the age of three . |
| 2 | He always wanted to become Prime Minister , and in 1969 he secured the safe Tory seat of Louth at the age of 29 , becoming the country 's youngest MP.The trouble was , he was in too much of a hurry . |
| 3 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 4 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 5 | For example , Miller and Luloff ( 1981 ) used factor analysis to argue that a rural culture still exists in America , and used multiple discriminant analysis to suggest that although residence and occupation are correlated with a rural culture , more central variables could be place of residence at the age of 16 , along with several personal demographic features such as religion , income and age . |
| 6 | Luke then records a story about Jesus visiting the capital city for the feast of Passover at the age of twelve . |
| 7 | Included in the new contract is the compulsory retirement of doctors at the age of 70 . |
| 8 | For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord ! |
| 9 | Zeisl , who was born in Vienna , showed early determination to compose , and entered the Vienna State Academy of Music at the age of fourteen . |
| 10 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 11 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 12 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |