Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holidays can make a big hole in your savings so we offer a 5% discount for clients over the age of 60 on the date of departure . |
| 2 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 3 | It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old . |
| 4 | Tax evasion is a similar problem in interpreting the sixteenth-century subsidy rolls , while any deductions based on the military survey , a crude census of males over the age of sixteen , must allow not only for children but also for the balance between men and women in the population as a whole . |
| 5 | That report from the Mayo clinic was mirrored to some extent by the study of Pescatori and Mattana who reported that 45% of patients over the age of 45 experienced faecal soiling , whereas only 24% of patients under 45 years of age did so . |
| 6 | Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) interviewed a random general population sample of females over the age of 15 in Hobart , Tasmania , and found that overdoses and self-injuries were regarded as potentially lethal in most cases . |
| 12 | Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations . |
| 13 | Data from the 1931 to 1961 Censuses and from the Ministry of Social Security for 1966 showed a continuous decline in the percentage of men over the age of 65 in full-time paid employment ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 14 | Westergaard and Resler estimated that in 1970 only 7% of adults over the age of 25 owned shares . |
| 15 | Higher sums apply for disabled pensioners , for individuals over the age of 75 and for people living in residential care or nursing homes . |
| 16 | With about half the housing provided by associations and co-operatives for tenants over the age of 60 , its activities are rightly concentrated within central areas . |
| 17 | There is no upper age limit but to keep costs of premiums down , the benefits are halved for persons over the age of 65 . |
| 18 | Research shows 60 per cent of those in homes over the age of 70 have impaired hearing , yet less than one-quarter have hearing aids . |
| 19 | Nasal oxygen supplementation significantly reduces this problem and should be routinely used in patients over the age of 60 undergoing ERCP as this reduces the sedation risks of the procedure . |
| 20 | Restorative proctocolectony with end to end pouch-anal anastomosis in patients over the age of fifty |
| 21 | In previous studies no clearly identifiable risk factors for colorectal cancer have been found except age ( 94% of new colorectal carcinoma occurs in patients over the age of 50 years ) , and family history . |
| 22 | Most of these cases will occur in people over the age of 60 . |
| 23 | Reanalysis of data published in the childhood supplement of the registrar general 's decennial supplement on occupational mortality in England and Wales , which compares numerator data for registrations of deaths in children over the age of 1 but below their 16th birthday in 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , and 1983 with data about children aged 1–15 who were enumerated at the 1981 census . |
| 24 | The failure of a chromosome to split properly is much more common in women over the age of about 35 — the older the woman is the more likely she is to have a baby with Down 's . |
| 25 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 26 | Anyway , he consoled himself , nobody in Tollemarche over the age of forty ever really read a book , though they talked about them . |
| 27 | What do you honestly feel about ladies over the age of forty appearing nude in centrefolds such as Playboy , and if approached yourself , with the body you have today — which is marvellous — would you do it ? |
| 28 | The Employment Training Programme , set up in 1988 to help the long-term unemployed , gives a low priority to workers over the age of 54 who are regarded as non-mainstream ( indeed those over 60 are not eligible to participate ) , even though it is older workers who are most at risk of experiencing long-term unemployment . |
| 29 | Mean maximal resting anal pressures and maximum squeeze pressures were significantly lower in older people , although the word ‘ older ’ referred to patients over the age of 65 rather than 50 as in this study . |
| 30 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |