Example sentences of "with age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite what brewers ' architects often allege , the life expectancy of such plastic window units is proving remarkably short — as little as five years for the fittings , and twenty years for the plastic itself , which is exhibiting distinct tendencies to warp and discolour with age . |
| 2 | Her taste for light food has increased with age and so she cooks a lot with vegetables ( which she also likes for their strong colours ) , although supplies of fresh produce are sometimes limited in North Wales . |
| 3 | Spathiphyllum wallisii , the peace lily , is a most elegant houseplant , with glossy green lance-shaped leaves and fragrant arum lily-like flowers of the purest white , turning to cream then to the palest green with age . |
| 4 | Raddled nets trailed at grey window-panes , flakes of plaster flecked the bare boards , newsprint , piss-yellow with age , scrunched at her feet . |
| 5 | Coaches are generally asked to give an undertaking that their entries all comply with age ceilings . |
| 6 | Injury is more likely when a joint has become stiff either with age or disuse . |
| 7 | The mobility of older people , which affects their access to the facilities that they need to use , may decrease with age . |
| 8 | The letter links the findings of Dis-continuing care with Age Concern 's recent work on hospital discharge and other issues , and refers also to the recent decisions of the Health Service Commissioner on health authority responsibilities for provision of long-term care . |
| 9 | Having done the climb in this manner , Dave thought the route unjustified in this state , feeling that as the pegs deteriorated with age no-one would repeat it . |
| 10 | These processes — a series of ultradian pulses , the frequency of which shows a 24-hour rhythm and the distribution of which alters with age — occur also with the sex hormones ( see Fig 3.2 ) . |
| 11 | The total amount of testosterone secreted daily as well as the amplitude of the daily rhythm decline with age after a peak during youth ; it resembles growth hormone , therefore , in these respects . |
| 12 | There is the additional possibility that the body clock itself might , like other parts of the brain and body , deteriorate with age . |
| 13 | An attack may die out if the timber becomes hard and unpalatable to the beetle with age and correct maintenance . |
| 14 | Painted dressers are distinguished with age and use , Oriental rugs have pleasing glimpses of threadbare patches . |
| 15 | Her assurance has obviously come with age and experience , but there is no doubt that her first major public speech marked a turning point . |
| 16 | The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age . |
| 17 | The roof lines swoop , the chimneys soar , and the beams of local oak in the hall look silver with age . |
| 18 | The Discobolus , a life-size model of a discus-thrower , was a Hellenistic reworking of a classical sculpture in the first place , but that did not stop the BM from buying it ; fakes seem to get less fake with age . |
| 19 | She was standing outside , quite still , dressed only in her nightdress ; her feet , misshapen with age , standing unprotected upon the frost-rimed path . |
| 20 | It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle . |
| 21 | A child 's response to death will vary not only in accordance with parental attitudes , but also in accordance with age . |
| 22 | It 's a fact that a dog 's senses will deteriorate with age , but because their senses are generally much more acute than ours , we do n't always recognise when one is slowly failing because the other senses adjust so well . |
| 23 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 24 | Brittle with age and affliction , the branches offered uncertain support . |
| 25 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 26 | The floorboards themselves were grey with age , and dusty , but not worm-eaten , not rotten . |
| 27 | Most of the buildings were grey or black with age and pollution . |
| 28 | The researchers are about to start work on a project to use the technique to show how a person 's face would change with age — a technique which could help find people missing for years . |
| 29 | Several of them — constipation , confusion , urinary incontinence and difficulty seeing and hearing — have been shown elsewhere to increase with age ( Cartwright , 1990a ) . |
| 30 | Endill walked up to the picture frame and noticed there was nothing in it but a blank piece of paper , yellow with age . |