Example sentences of "age of about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You 'll swear you saw her smile long before the ‘ average ’ age of about six weeks . |
| 4 | By the age of about 4 months a baby is able to push food to the back of the mouth and swallow it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suitable for babies up to the age of about nine months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By " childhood " we mean here the years between the age of about two years and the beginning of puberty . |
| 9 | It is in the next stage , from the age of about twelve years , that children develop the skills of formal thought and logical reasoning . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | also indicated an age of about 200,000 years . |