Example sentences of "to a younger " in BNC.

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1 Mike Yarwood and the catchphrase ‘ Silly Billy ’ had a lot to do with it , but more important is the fact that the Labour Party now belongs to a younger generation .
2 Although they are the letters of instruction from an older devil to a younger , Screwtape 's sense of what the Enemy ( i.e. God ) is preparing for his servants can not fail to break through .
3 Like U2 before them , the Flowers chose to remain in Dublin , homeboys and heroes to a younger generation who seem to have adopted their outre nouveau hippy image .
4 Rap , they feel , may help return jazz from whence it came — to a younger , blacker audience .
5 Women bore children late ; widowed men commonly remarried quickly to a younger woman so that there was another batch of younger children in the family ; and most children married late .
6 In relation to redundancy practices , while it is not permissible for an employer to discriminate on the basis of race , sex or trade union activities , industrial tribunals have confirmed that it is acceptable for an employer to choose a worker near retirement age in preference to a younger employee .
7 Elderly people may turn to a younger relative or friend to help them host a party .
8 Reilly opts for the return of England skipper Garry Schofield to stand-off and will give the substitute 's role to a younger player .
9 He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player .
10 This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting .
11 ‘ What I 'm trying to do ’ , says Jordan , ‘ is to introduce the jazz guitar to a younger audience .
12 The comparatively high number of transport and particularly railway workers may reflect the increased opportunities for such work in late nineteenth-century Edinburgh ( none of the bridegrooms , belonging to a younger generation , worked on the railways : if in transport they were in more modern motorized jobs like van-driver : see Table 10 below ) .
13 Andrée appeared to have padded most of her edges ; she was being considerate , intelligent , serious , talking like an elder person generous with knowledge to a younger one , and Flavia ceased to feel an absurd adolescent and a target .
14 By the early Fifties , however , it was apparent the movie industry in Britain was beginning to run out of steam , losing ground to a younger , more immediate industry with which it just could not compete — Television .
15 Speeding up cellular turn-over ; zapping free radicals ; strengthening intercellular cement , all in turn seemed to hold the key to a younger , fresher complexion .
16 Erm the why should a parent , looking at this pretty critically why should a parent want an older child , like to give up something to a younger one ?
17 Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation .
18 To a younger worker who had not yet specialised and could more easily be re-employed without seriously losing status , the threat might be less serious .
19 It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation .
20 But we have kept the Sixties colour and feel while appealing to a younger market . ’
21 Clinton offers it to a younger generation .
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