Example sentences of "in [num] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 2 | One of Turner 's earliest known wrought-iron conservatories was the range erected in 1836–7 at the vice-regal lodge in Phoenix Park , Dublin . |
| 3 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |
| 4 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
| 5 | One especial favourite was David Mitchell who had joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of fifteen . |
| 6 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 7 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 8 | Tabley House is the 3,000-acre estate near Knutsford , which he inherited in 1770 at the age of eight . |
| 9 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 10 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
| 11 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
| 12 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |
| 13 | However , after training , she set out by boat for India in 1935 at the age of 30 as a pioneer missionary under the auspices of the Ceylon and India General Mission . |
| 14 | ‘ My grandfather died in 1935 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 15 | After a pious and seemingly untroubled Christian upbringing , he was duly confirmed in 1861 at the age of sixteen , but within a year was already casting a cold eye on the case for a " literalistic attitude " towards Christian doctrine and asserting that " the existence of God , immortality , the authority of the Bible , inspiration and other things will always remain problems . |
| 16 | But perhaps the easiest way to follow the new pop story is in the pages of The Face , a magazine founded in 1980 at the conjuncture of music , fashion , art and design . |
| 17 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 18 | Queen Alexandra died in 1925 at the age of 81 . |
| 19 | They had one daughter , who died of typhoid in 1872 at the age of eight . |
| 20 | Thus , in 1202 at the Lincolnshire Assize , the defendant was acquitted of rape , having successfully argued in his defence that ‘ tunc et prius et post fuit succuba eius ’ — she had lain with him both before and afterwards . |
| 21 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 22 | She made her exhibition début in 1867 at the Dudley Gallery , London , with three water-colours of female figures drawn from literary sources . |
| 23 | It was built in 1802 at the expense of Mrs Charlotte Bethell , the wife of the then lord of the manor . |
| 24 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 25 | Born in 1914 Blamey began his art studies in 1933 at the Regent Street Polytechnic where Harry Watson was the most influential teacher . |
| 26 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 27 | The only major late work was a programmatic second symphony , ‘ Chivalry ’ , first performed in 1881 at the Crystal Palace . |
| 28 | His brother Luke , whom Coleridge had come to know and revere in London , had died in 1790 at the age of twenty-five ; Nancy , loved ‘ most tenderly ’ , had succumbed to tuberculosis the following year at only twenty-one . |
| 29 | In 1895 at the beginning of his work Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre Georg Cantor * made the following definition : By a set we understand any collection M of definite , distinct objects m of our perception or of our thought ( which will be called the elements of M ) into a whole . |
| 30 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |