Example sentences of "[noun] over the age of [num] " 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 registered elector over the age of twenty-one may be a candidate if not disqualified , but in addition people may stand for election if they have occupied property , been resident or had their main place of work in the area for at least twelve months . |
| 3 | Three of these studies , from Cologne , Leeds , and Sheffield , have provided comparative data on large numbers of patients and their combined experience of 149 subjects over the age of 65 years ( the German patients were 70 and over ) is large enough to allow comparison with 475 younger patients from the same centres . |
| 4 | Experience was regarded as " limited " in variety if among the youngest age group it was little or nothing ; among unmarried subjects over the age of 20 if there had been no sexual intercourse nor other stimulation to orgasm by another person ; and among older or married people if sexual intercourse , with its preliminary manual love-play , had been the only sexual activity . |
| 5 | The competition is open to all readers over the age of 18 in Great Britain , Northern Ireland , Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man , but not Eire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gandhi has described in Satyagraha in South Africa how in the course of the struggle against the Black Act of 1907 , which required every Indian over the age of eight in the Transvaal to register and be finger-printed , he developed his doctrine of satyagraha or ‘ truth-force ’ and its practical application in civil disobedience . |
| 9 | I also accept that if a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child under 16 has a right to refuse treatment , so too has a child over the age of 16 . |
| 10 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 11 | Certainly a child over the age of 16 may give valid consent to medical treatment ( Family Law Reform Act 1969 , s8 ) and may be presumed to have the capacity to withhold consent to treatment and examination unless mentally incapacitated in some way . |
| 12 | Under Bosnian law it is illegal to adopt a child over the age of five but the Nicholsons are hoping that , with the aunt 's blessing , this obstacle can be overcome . |
| 13 | ‘ The ruling in Bosnia is you ca n't adopt a child over the age of five . |
| 14 | Random Century have produced a beautiful ‘ gift pack ’ of the book ( hardback ) , lavishly and handsomely illustrated by the author , together with this cassette , making a highly desirable present for any child over the age of three . |
| 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 | It is a universal charge , levied at a flat rate for all individuals over the age of 18 living in the local authority area . |
| 17 | For personal pensions , individuals over the age of 50 can contribute up to 30 per cent , rising ( depending on their age ) to a maximum of 40 per cent . |
| 18 | According to the 1981 census , 46.5 per cent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate . |
| 19 | Historically , the major group of offenders are 14- to 20-year-old males and these peaked as a proportion of the population in 1982 at 6.77 per cent ( of the total population over the age of 10 ) before declining to 5.99 per cent in 1988 . |
| 20 | In 1980 , the illiteracy rate was estimated to be 40 per cent of the population over the age of fifteen , with a further 15 per cent semi-literate . |
| 21 | On average , inner London districts employ around one third fewer district nurses per capita of the resident population over the age of 75 than comparable districts outside London and the cost per contact is 60% higher than the national average . |
| 22 | All the evidence suggests that for 99.9 per cent of the population over the age of seven or eight homosexuality is determined . ' |
| 23 | Between 1911 and the 1980s the proportion of the UK population over the age of 65 had tripled from 5 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 24 | By virtue of the Immigration ( Hotel Records ) Order 1972 all guests over the age of sixteen are required upon arrival at a hotel to register their full name and nationality , or have it registered for them . |
| 25 | The average weekly wage of young women workers over the age of eighteen in non-textile industries was 12/11d in 1906 , a sum that did not permit a fully independent existence . |
| 26 | Turnover rates for labour are also higher in older age groups especially among those workers over the age of 45 . |
| 27 | It is particularly important for older workers over the age of 50 , but not confined to this group . |
| 28 | Most farm workers over the age of forty have witnessed the disappearance of a predominantly horse-and-hand technology and its replacement by one based upon the internal combustion engine . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There is no upper age limit but to keep costs of premiums down , the benefits are halved for persons over the age of 65 . |