Example sentences of "at [det] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives the range of MLU scores which accounted for the middle two-thirds of the 123 children studied at each age level . |
| 2 | Difficulty was defined in terms of the numbers of children at each age level getting each item right . |
| 3 | At each age level , those items which discriminated between the normal and speech-delayed subjects were regarded as being valid measures of articulation . |
| 4 | Final selection of the plates to be included in the test was determined by a number of criteria : the percentage of subjects getting an item correct had to increase with the age of the children ; the distractors at each age should attract responses , but not correlate with the total score ; and the final items needed to be evenly spread across the ability range . |
| 5 | Different clinics use differently designed weight charts but they all show the percentage of boys and girls who are at a particular height and weight at each age ( Tanner and Whitehouse 1975 ) . |
| 6 | Although the birth-rate fluctuated from time to time during the century — for example , it was low in the inter-war years and high in the immediate post-Second World War years — the proportion of survivors at each age , and especially among the young , increased throughout the period . |
| 7 | This group was asked to advise on what forms of assessment , including testing , would be most appropriate at each age . |
| 8 | First , constraints on the combinations of survival and fertility that the organism can achieve at each age may mean that a single optimal genotype evolves , which shows senescence because fitness is maximized by increasing early performance at the expense of late ( the optimality explanation ) . |
| 9 | Second , at each age mortality rates are lower for women as compared with men ( this is considered in more detail below ) . |
| 10 | Within each of these age groups , the difference between the ‘ observed ’ and ‘ age standardized ’ bars gives that change which is not attributable to changing numbers in the age group , and the difference between the ‘ observed ’ and ‘ age/sex/marital status standardized ’ bars gives the change attributable to changes in the headship rates for each marital status of each sex , at each age , i.e. to factors other than the change in the numbers in each age , sex and marital status group . |
| 11 | A crosstabulation of Age by Salary showing the numbers at each age in particular salary bands is possible with a command like : CROSSTAB AGE , SALARY and a graph showing the same information is produced by typing : GRAPH AGE VS SALARY Similarly , modelling systems exist to allow the users to explore the effects of changes on their organisations . |
| 12 | The point at which the national curriculum begins to matter is the age of 5 : assessment at each successive stage should in some way affect the ambitions and choices at each age . |
| 13 | The conception rates are given per 1000 women at each age ( age 13–15 for ‘ under 16 ’ ) . |
| 14 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 15 | Maybe it was because I 'd seen Ronnie Lane of The Faces — who was my hero at that age — wearing a pair on TV . |
| 16 | At that age everybody is down on you . |
| 17 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 18 | Even at that age , he was listening to Charlie Mingus and people like that . |
| 19 | But in some cases a person of the age of 16 can make what is in effect equivalent to a disposition by will : a member of a Trade Union or Friendly Society may , for instance , at that age nominate in writing a person to receive moneys payable on his death by the Union or Society . |
| 20 | Certainly there appears to be some sense in restricting any changes in the law of incest so that it continues to be an offence for a parent or grandparent to have sexual relations with a child aged 16 or 17 , because children of that age are often dependent and living at home , and so the conditions for exploitation are still present at that age . |
| 21 | ‘ The comparing power , the judgement , is not at that age active , and ought not to be forcibly excited — ’ You do n't like this ? |
| 22 | And it 's very probable , at that age , that it was our family who told us , or implied ( or maybe even talked about us to neighbours — ‘ She 's chubby already , I 'm worried about her , weight problems run in our family ’ , or ‘ She gets her looks from her dad' ) whether we were pretty or not , and formed the basis of our self-image . |
| 23 | She refused to believe that anyone could start at that age ; she 'd been sixteen when hers had started . |
| 24 | Nobody had ever done that job at that age before . ’ |
| 25 | The concept is an enormous one for twelve-year-olds to grasp with any sense of reality , for many children of that age would regard it as fun if their family had to go away to new lands — just as I can recall at that age receiving the news of the outbreak of the Second World War with great joy ! |
| 26 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 27 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 28 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 29 | Moreover , you 're now at that age when you have to Go Into Hospital in a way which was unthinkable ten years back . |
| 30 | But you never listen , do you , not at that age . |