Example sentences of "over [art] age [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be difficulty obtaining a policy over the age of 75 . |
| 2 | Minor works grants of up to £1,000 are available to home owners or private tenants over the age of 60 who are in receipt of Income Support , Community Charge Benefit , or Housing Benefit . |
| 3 | This is particularly true for some people over the age of 85 . |
| 4 | For example , one in five people over the age of 80 are likely to develop Alzheimer 's Disease , a form of senile dementia . |
| 5 | One in three women over the age of 80 at some time have a fracture of the hip . |
| 6 | The figures show that in 1990 , there were 90,843 people over the age of 65 supported by local authorities in all types of accommodation ( of whom 87,652 were in their own or other authorities ' homes ) . |
| 7 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 8 | Of the 1,792 people over the age of 15 questioned by Public Attitude Survey , 7 per cent believed the law should be the exclusive preserve of Christianity . |
| 9 | As a Race Today editorial ( in October 1974 ) put it , ‘ the section to benefit most from the trade unions are white men over the age of thirty-five . |
| 10 | 1 The competition is open to all residents of the UK over the age of 18 holding current UK full driving licences , other than employees ( and their families ) of Haymarket Magazines Ltd , Peugeot , the AA or their agents . |
| 11 | An angel there to prove that not everyone over the age of 12 is totally screwed up . |
| 12 | ‘ Does n't matter if they 're still at school , as long as they 're over the age of consent and on the Pill . |
| 13 | Sex in private between consenting males over the age of 21 may have been legal since 1967 , but how far have attitudes really changed ? |
| 14 | Barely over the age of 30 , I used some of them in 1961 against the Establishment . |
| 15 | EVERYONE over the age of 20 should have a regular blood pressure check to reduce the incidence of heart disease and sudden heart attacks , heart specialists said yesterday . |
| 16 | The Assembly ( free males over the age of 18 with Athenian parents ) made every political decision . |
| 17 | Charles made his subjects swear a new form of allegiance to him as emperor , the vow being administered to all people over the age of twelve : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Returning through Bologna he passed various tests for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica and was awarded a diploma , the conditions of entry , stipulating that members must be over the age of 20 , having been waived on this occasion . |
| 20 | In January 1967 , there was the famous Human Be-in at Golden Gate park in San Francisco , and Allen Ginsberg , now suitably converted to Buddhism blew on a conch shell and chanted Hindu sayings and recommended that every healthy American over the age of fourteen should try LSD once . |
| 21 | And the numbers of elderly people are on a steep increase : the number of people over the age of 85 will double to one million by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | It makes little sense to describe everyone over the age of 60 or 65 as ‘ the elderly population ’ , or ‘ old people ’ . |
| 23 | Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying . |
| 24 | The NILP pledged an extension of the city boundary and the extension of the local government franchise to all citizens over the age of twenty-one , the abolition of the company vote , the realignment of electoral boundaries and the allocation of houses ‘ solely on the basis of need ’ . |
| 25 | First , Easington Secondary Modern School for Boys was opened in 1952 ; the former elementary schools in and around Banbury gave up to the new campus their boys over the age of eleven . |
| 26 | One rather strange anomaly is that such intercourse is legal between consenting male adults over the age of 21 , but is illegal between heterosexuals and is punishable by a large fine or four years in prison . |
| 27 | To quote one Brazilian professor , ‘ Everyone over the age of three years has got scabies ’ . |
| 28 | The number of people in England and Wales over the age of 75 has increased by 20 per cent since 1981 ; and those over 85 by almost 40 per cent , according to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 29 | There is no upper age limit but to keep costs of premiums down , the benefits are halved for persons over the age of 65 . |
| 30 | One of the major changes to which our society must give meaning is the increasing number of people over the age of retirement , especially those in their 80s and 90s . |