Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he reflected on how age and death laid waste man 's being , and saw a means of interfering with that process , he acted as harbinger to the Age of Science then in its first dawn . |
| 2 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 3 | At the secondary-school stage , anxiety about assessment at the age of 14 and 16 years again led to an alteration in government requirements . |
| 4 | His first book Counselling Older People was published as part of the Age Concern Handbook series . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This would contract the scope of indecent assault and remove non-consensual acts from the crime of buggery , which would continue to cover consensual anal intercourse between parties under the age of consent . |
| 7 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 8 | ‘ Minders ’ in Nidri in high season look after children between the ages of 4–13 during the shore week for parents who have booked a yachting course , or six days sailing or windsurfing . |
| 9 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 10 | MARINE Youth will be holding trials for youngsters between the ages of 15 and 17 , who have had experience at county level . |
| 11 | Research has continued on nuptiality , specifically on the relative importance of changes in fertility in the past and of change in the age of marriage and in the proportions marrying . |
| 12 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |
| 13 | It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old . |
| 14 | It suggested that millions of US children were receiving up to 35 per cent of their entire lifetime dose of carcinogens by the age of five , and calls for cuts in pesticide use , including the phasing out of all those classed by the EPA as carcinogens . |
| 15 | The purpose of this project is to survey post-16 provision by the statutory youth service , trends of change in that provision and their implications for the future pattern of provision throughout the age range for which the service is responsible ; to survey the way in which |
| 16 | A perfect baby , Merrick showed the first signs of deformity at the age of twenty-one months . |
| 17 | British rulers have made collections of books down the ages , and the library portraits of the English kings Henry VII ( 1485–1509 ) , Henry VIII ( 1509–1547 ) and Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558–1603 ) acknowledge these monarchs ' contributions to the sixteenth-century Renaissance of learning in England . |
| 18 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 19 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 20 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | There is a considerable degree of variability in the age structure of different parts of the UK , owing to the age-selective nature of the migration process ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 22 | The committees therefore discriminate in favour of candidates under the age of 35 at the expense of those who have taken longer to reach senior registrar level because they have had to start again after moving from another country , were older when they entered medical school , or have had time off for sick leave or maternity leave . |
| 23 | It is increasingly being asked whether the solution to the problem of truancy beyond the age of 13 lies in changes at school to alleviate the boredom , and increase the motivation to participate , of less academic pupils . |
| 24 | Also , men have no worries about pregnancy and single parenthood , they still seem to be blithe about AIDS , and have n't taken heed of the warning from One Plus One ( formerly the Marriage Research Council ) that men cast out of marriage between the ages of 25 and 50 are twice as likely to die prematurely and drink too much . |
| 25 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 26 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 27 | The best known ( to sociologists ) of the surveys conducted with this sample was published as The Home and the School , by J.W.B. Douglas , in 1964 ; 4 , 195 of the children were found still to be living in England and Wales , and 3,418 of these ( 81.5 per cent ) were tested for various aspects of intelligence at the ages of eight and eleven . |
| 28 | She died of bronchitis at the age of seventy-seven . |
| 29 | For example , Miller and Luloff ( 1981 ) used factor analysis to argue that a rural culture still exists in America , and used multiple discriminant analysis to suggest that although residence and occupation are correlated with a rural culture , more central variables could be place of residence at the age of 16 , along with several personal demographic features such as religion , income and age . |
| 30 | We will introduce a new law dealing with discrimination on grounds of sexuality , repeal the unjust Clause 28 and allow a free vote in the House of Commons on the age of consent . |