Example sentences of "aged [num] [coord] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) for instance found that 47 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone , compared with 28 per cent of those aged 65 to 74 years . |
| 2 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 3 | 6% of households headed by a person aged 75 and over lacked basic amenities ( compared to under 2% for younger groups ) . |
| 4 | Between 1981 and 1986 the average hospital stay for a patient aged 85 and over decreased by 7.7 days . |
| 5 | Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one . |
| 6 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 7 | In the study conducted in Great Britain during the late 1950s , an important finding was that 28 per cent of multiparous women aged 35 and over had elevated diastolic blood pressure compared to 17 per cent of those under age 25 . |
| 8 | For example , those aged 65 and over accounted for one-third of all NHS prescriptions and about 40 per cent of acute hospital-bed occupation . |
| 9 | The numbers of people aged 65 and over grew from 1.7 million to 8.8 million between 1901 and 1991 , increasing as a proportion of the total population from 4.7% to 15.8% . |
| 10 | Twice the proportion of incontinent women aged 60 or over attributed their incontinence to childbirth than women non-sufferers in that age group ( 16% ( 22 ) v 7% ( 52 ) ) thought likely . |