Example sentences of "[noun pl] the young " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is so much strong work around but in many cases the young artists will come up eventually . |
| 2 | As it happened , the bombs the young officer involved was carrying went off prematurely . ’ |
| 3 | At times the Young King may genuinely have regretted the path he had chosen but he was now in too deep to be able to draw back . |
| 4 | It climbs the palm with ease and once in the crest , cuts down with its gigantic pincers the young coconuts on which it feeds . |
| 5 | There are five T'yungunz in the nest to feed , but if Steg takes too long catching dindins the young 'uns die of starvation ( as do I if I do without food for more than 15 nanoseconds ) . |
| 6 | The next time the girl opened her eyes the young officer was staring straight into them , his face strained and anxious . |
| 7 | A study of the Atchee hunter gatherers in Paraguay show that a woman 's body weight was erm directly related to her reproductive success as was her age of menarche in other words the younger the younger menarche and the heavier the woman , the greater her lifetime reproductive success and this again er should n't surprise us . |
| 8 | and at Limoges the young salesman |
| 9 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 10 | In any other circumstances the young man 's burr would have made me laugh . |
| 11 | Mrs Burrows called this afternoon while you were on the shore and said that Harry was most anxious you should take part in some theatricals the young people want to perform at Easter . |
| 12 | Later , the explanations the young Americans of Charlie Company gave were singularly mundane : ‘ I wanted to see what it was like to shoot someone … |
| 13 | In some places the young people had the boundaries impressed upon their person as well as their memories , by being physically bumped against the ground or bent over stones and beaten . |
| 14 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 15 | Her features were similar yet somehow blunted , her body stockier — not fat yet somehow altogether larger so that beside Paula she always felt clumsy in spite of being a full four inches shorter and almost two years the younger . |
| 16 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 17 | In the world senior championships the young Holy Trinity protege boxed brilliantly to capture a bronze medal . |
| 18 | In the world senior championships the young Holy Trinity protege boxed brilliantly to capture a bronze medal . |
| 19 | The sturm und drang of current favourites The Young Gods is the sound of strength being expended . |
| 20 | The missive was handed to the Professor , who hesitated to send it on ; he would have liked to pay the bill , but it was not certain what other extravagances the young woman would incur . |
| 21 | In Australian Aborigines the young , the young girls go to the er the older powerful men . |
| 22 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 23 | The attitudes of authors of stories the young read or hear , whether prejudiced or condescending or exaggeratedly ‘ socially aware ’ , are readily perceived and are influential , even when they are half hidden . |
| 24 | Anybody can can spend other people 's money and and as for that lady saying we want the young people on the Council good heavens the young ones would spend it quicker than the old ones . |
| 25 | A police officer reported that ‘ in some villages the young men are brought up from their childhood with the idea that according to ancient Kandyan custom the highland on which the [ coffee ] estate has been opened belongs by right of inheritance to the village below and in helping themselves they are only taking the rent of the ground . ’ |
| 26 | In a couple of seasons the younger players in the side should have come on considerably and be contributing regularly — it is then players like Rocky would come into their own , providing the guidance and experience that people like Strach have been doing . |
| 27 | There was little variation in RNR with age for women living alone , but among men the youngest age-group , 65–69 , had a considerably higher RNR level , 139 per cent , than the older groups ( 118 to 121 per cent ) . |
| 28 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 29 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 30 | They still had the letters the young Marie had written from England . ’ |