Example sentences of "[art] age of about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the next stage , from the age of about twelve years , that children develop the skills of formal thought and logical reasoning . |
| 2 | The most basic was in the period up to the age of about two years , the sensori-motor stage , when the world is explored physically — all that waving of arms and legs , sucking , and ( later ) crawling . |
| 3 | By " childhood " we mean here the years between the age of about two years and the beginning of puberty . |
| 4 | Freud 's phases are first the oral , up to the age of about one-and-a-half years when all activity is concentrated on the mouth , on sucking , and on taking in to oneself . |
| 5 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 6 | Beyond the age of about 55 , to an increasing degree in older people , it is found that previous premarital experience of sex decreases , especially among women . |
| 7 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 8 | From the age of about six months , your baby will enjoy splashing and kicking in the bath , as long as you are holding on to her . |
| 9 | By the age of about five years a cat starts to lose its range of hearing and when the animal has become elderly , in feline terms , it is often nearly deaf . |
| 10 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 11 | I 'm glad to see the two hundred thousand , though I would have picked it up under , erm , children already erm , over the age of about five , but maybe I 've got that wrong . |
| 12 | Suitable for babies up to the age of about nine months . |
| 13 | Well that 's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine , but pretty soon you 'd have to do something about it , would n't you ? |
| 14 | I I think it 's important , especially for for young women up to the age of about thirty five when your peak bone density is probably attained and after that you , you do go downhill , to maximise the calcium intake . |
| 15 | Consider how Shamdev first behaved when rescued from the forest at the age of about 5 : |
| 16 | By the age of about 4 months a baby is able to push food to the back of the mouth and swallow it . |
| 17 | It was n't compulsory er erm up to the age of about eighteen I think , |
| 18 | Steiner 's insights into the nature of human handicap , within his concept of the true spiritual nature of all men , inspired König and his unremunerated co-workers to plan practical implementation of many novel concepts of teaching , learning , and healing for young people with handicaps — up to the age of about nineteen . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's sixty if she 's a day , ’ said Camille , who found it difficult , in her more regressive moments , to believe that anyone over the age of about twenty could find much reason for living . |
| 20 | From the age of about three , at bedtime story-time , Shanti would often ask , ‘ Tell me about when you fetched me from London . ’ |
| 21 | Wanting to remain a child becomes unfeasible even to the most stupid old beard at the age of about 35 ; they eventually give up and accept they were born to be schoolteachers . |
| 22 | The failure of a chromosome to split properly is much more common in women over the age of about 35 — the older the woman is the more likely she is to have a baby with Down 's . |
| 23 | Pregnant women over the age of about 35 , those who have a close relative who has Down 's , or those who 've already given birth to a baby with Down 's , are usually offered a test to see if their foetus is affected . |
| 24 | From the age of about seven or eight , children , particularly girls , tend to form inseparable friendships . |
| 25 | I spent my whole childhood — from the age of about seven until the day I got my record contract — having rows with my parents … specifically my father , because he 's not very musical , to put it mildly . |
| 26 | As we saw earlier , Piaget argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven years ( i.e. , they do not understand that B because A and A because B mean different things ) . |
| 27 | On the basis of these results , Emerson argued that children do not understand the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning until the age of about seven or eight years . |
| 28 | As medical care improves , a much more ‘ beehive ’ shaped profile becomes the standard pattern with death being fairly unlikely before the age of about 60 , at which point the remaining scourges of cancer and heart disease maintain the pyramid form for the older age groups . |
| 29 | From the age of about 40 , people are increasingly ashamed of their ageing . |
| 30 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |