Example sentences of "age when they " in BNC.
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| 1 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 2 | An increasing number of ex-Service personnel and their dependants are now reaching the age when they require some form of supportive housing , and this number will continue to grow over the next decade . |
| 3 | As with a straight life policy , people pay a regular premium , which varies according to the age when they start the insurance . |
| 4 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that many give up fishing at an age when they should be at their peak , with a true set of values and the all too rare ability to enjoy themselves even when fish are not being very cooperative . |
| 6 | Isabel was John 's second wife and he was 54 years of age when they married . |
| 7 | The sons had reached an age when they might talk of Paul . |
| 8 | It has led not only to the preservation and publication of documents — in the narrow and conventional sense of the term — on a colossal scale , in an age when they are more plentiful than ever before , but also to the reverential preservation of monuments from the more distant past by learned societies , governments and interested private persons . |
| 9 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 10 | It was the authority–s policy , and an implied term of the applicant 's contract of employment , that employees retired at the age when they became entitled to draw the state retirement pension , this being aged 65 for a man and 60 for a woman . |
| 11 | Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife . |
| 12 | The greatly increased life expectancy of both men and women today means that the children of many of them may themselves be entering old age when they , the parents , are really in need of care . |
| 13 | God , he thought , Americans must think they 're in the Stone Age when they come to stay in a place like this . |
| 14 | People in such situations are reaching the age when they can not cope physically or with the bureaucracy . |
| 15 | ‘ We can get it chased up but it 's probably one they hand out to anybody about the right age when they 're on the job . |
| 16 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |