Example sentences of "age [prep] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When there is a contractual retiring age for all or nearly all employees in a particular job , that is presumed to be the normal retiring age . |
| 2 | Even the popular teenager who rebels against parental values and goals is likely to return to them by the age of thirty or so . |
| 3 | If she did n't , she 'd have babies annually from puberty until death by childbirth around the age of thirty or so . |
| 4 | Up to the age of thirty or so he appeared to devote himself mainly to the social life of various celebrated Parisian salons . |
| 5 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 6 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 7 | Tales from Lavender Shoes ( TS405 — two cassettes ; 1 hour 50 minutes ) read by Jill Shilling is from the pen of Alison Uttley , a favourite writer for several generations of children , who enjoy her stories from the age of five or even younger and go on enjoying her for years . |
| 8 | Walter has since celebrated his 100th birthday , but sadly , Ted died recently , at the ripe old age of 91 and still cycling . |
| 9 | It is a moving end to a moving story for the son of a Tyneside lorry driver who first began wearing his mother 's clothes at the age of eight and soon after began the inner turmoil which has caused him so much anguish . |
| 10 | A situation can be envisaged where a child commits an offence at the age of eight and then offends no more , but is kept subject to a supervision requirement for a number of years for his ‘ care or protection ’ . |
| 11 | As studies in many parts of the world show , the sexual satisfaction of both partners continues in a high proportion of cases long after the age of seventy and often well into the eighties . |
| 12 | Far too many of them lost all contact with the education system after the age of 16 and far larger numbers in England than in Germany were in dead-end jobs without any training at all . ’ |
| 13 | The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times . |
| 14 | Most researchers have focused on Creole use in Britain as an adolescent phenomenon , and there seems to be a general belief that use of Creole is negligible or non-existent before the age of 14 or so . |
| 15 | This is what Miranda remembers , how Serafine began a story , and how at the age of nine or so , she would answer , more quietly , in chorus with Xanthe , both wanting to hear Feeny : |
| 16 | At least 4 out of 16 ( 25 per cent ) of the adolescents had reached the age of sixteen or more without receiving any information from adults about sexually transmitted diseases and contraception . |
| 17 | Jackson was virtually forced out of the game at the age of 26 and never played professionally again , and Cheyne was driven overseas to the French club Nimes . |
| 18 | The survey revealed that it is women over the age of 45 and largely in the middle class AB and C1 social brackets who are addicted to detective series . |
| 19 | Baptized on 31 August 1673 , the younger Daniel Coxe emigrated to America at the age of twenty-eight and thereafter took a prominent role in the affairs of West New Jersey . |
| 20 | He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints . |
| 21 | The Horse Rangers Association was founded in 1954 by Raymond Gordon FRSA to teach young people from the age of seven and upwards how to ride and look after horses and ponies . |
| 22 | He continued to assert that he would not live beyond the age of forty and even implied that he would take steps to ensure this . |
| 23 | Although a significant proportion of women remain economically active until the age of 60 or even 65 , retirement is still regarded as a predominantly male experience . |
| 24 | It is , up to the age of 9 or so , a developmental ability : many young children will simply not be able to isolate the different consonant noises in words like bump or thirst . |
| 25 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 26 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 27 | Lastly , were the ‘ Town Boys ’ , older boys and young men up to the age of 25 or so , who had previously demonstrated their ‘ worth ’ in the Rowdies ; who rested on their reputations but would still participate in acts of violence if called upon . |
| 28 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't have a specific target of carrying on to the age of 40 and then retiring . |
| 30 | Lady Belladonna 's utterance is tantamount to saying her age multiplied by her age multiplied by her age is the same as multiplying her age by four and then by five and finally by 45 . |