Example sentences of "aged [num] or over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 30 per cent of the population is aged 80 or over , living alone , with many of their carers aged 70 or over . |
| 2 | Sally Greengross , director of Age Concern , said : ‘ Age Concern remains very worried about the financial position of older pensioners , despite the October increases in income support and housing benefit for certain disabled pensioners and those aged 75 or over . |
| 3 | Sixty-two consecutive patients aged 75 or over and attending a general ophthalmology outpatients clinic were assessed . |
| 4 | Abrams and Marsden interviewed 38 such women caring for mothers aged 75 or over who were living with them . |
| 5 | The fact that the proportion of elderly people in our society has increased rapidly , together with an even greater increase in those aged 75 or over , creates a number of social problems . |
| 6 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 7 | In 1988 , 32% of women with children aged under 3 were working ( 21% part-time , 11% full-time ) compared with 73% with a youngest child aged 10 or over ( 43% part-time , 30% full-time ) ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 8 | The proportion of children aged 10 or over at adoption , however , has increased considerably since 1976 ( from 20 per cent to 28 per cent ) while the proportion of infants adopted under two years of age has decreased slightly ( from 26 to 25 percent ) ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | The relative risk of being seropositive in the British study compared with age peers in our study is infinite for 0–4 year olds , 4.6 for 5–9 year olds , and only 1.1 for subjects aged 10 or over . |
| 10 | The majority of councillors were aged 45 or over with none under 24 , the oldest being 85 . |
| 11 | The non-white population is young ; in 1985–7 , 35% were aged under 16 and 18% aged 45 or over ( compared with 20% under 16 and 36% 45 or over in the population as a whole ) ( OPCS , 1988 , p. 31 , Table 3 ) . |
| 12 | In a letter to regional advisers and postgraduate deans in 1988 the chairman of the Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training stated that trainees aged 35 or over and without the requisite ‘ papers ’ should be told they are unlikely to succeed in finding a senior registrar post . |
| 13 | The new law stated that any Pole aged 35 or over and enjoying full electoral rights could run for the presidency ; the signatures of at least 100,000 electors would be required to secure nomination as a candidate . |
| 14 | No fewer than 708 of the convicts ( 75 per cent ) had been aged 31 or over , and 573 ( 61 per cent ) had been illiterate . |
| 15 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 16 | The reason for discussing it here is that , under the Sexual Offences Act 1967 , this offence is not committed where the act is done in private , between consenting males , both aged 21 or over . |
| 17 | Another issue is whether brother — sister incest should remain criminal where both parties are aged 18 or over : when sentencing , the courts treat this as a much less serious form of the offence than father — daughter incest , and a majority of the CLRC accepted that brother — sister incest should cease to be an offence when both parties are aged 21 or over . |
| 18 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 19 | Adult prisons ( for those aged 21 or over ) are divided into ‘ local ’ prisons , which receive people from the courts , whether on remand or at the start of a sentence ( and where short sentences may be served in their entirety ) ; closed ‘ training ’ prisons of which Maidstone is one , and ‘ open ’ prisons , which have a minimum of security and are for prisoners perceived as posing no real risk to the public . |
| 20 | Walmsley points out that most of the increase involved the conviction of persons aged over 21 whose partners in the offence were also aged 21 or over ( the offence generally occurring , or at least being detected , in public conveniences ) . |
| 21 | The proposed changes , supported both by the Prime Minister and the opposition leader , would allow all those aged 21 or over to vote , but would still allow only Matai to become candidates . |
| 22 | Mature applicants ( i.e. those aged 21 or over by 1 October in the year of entry ) are advised to consult the appropriate section of this prospectus for information on entrance requirements . |
| 23 | Details about the relaxed entrance requirements for candidates aged 21 or over are given in the admissions section of the prospectus but all such candidates should contact the faculty at an early date to obtain information about the subjects and grades they require to achieve for entry . |
| 24 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 25 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 26 | If you are aged 55 or over and have a personal or occupational pension which is more than £35 per week , the rest will be deducted from your benefit . |
| 27 | There are three types of community charge , and nearly everyone aged 18 or over will have to pay at least one of them . |
| 28 | Another issue is whether brother — sister incest should remain criminal where both parties are aged 18 or over : when sentencing , the courts treat this as a much less serious form of the offence than father — daughter incest , and a majority of the CLRC accepted that brother — sister incest should cease to be an offence when both parties are aged 21 or over . |
| 29 | For a pupil under 16 , the parent alone is entitled to access , for a pupil aged 18 or over he alone is entitled and when he is 16 and 17 they both have the right . |
| 30 | If exclusion is to be permanent , the LEA 's decision on whether to order the pupil 's reinstatement is binding on the head teacher , although the governors may appeal against an LEA 's refusal to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil , using the same machinery which the LEA is required to establish for such appeals by parents ( and pupils if aged 18 or over ) . |