Example sentences of "get older " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you get older , the pressures of work , home and family can make it very easy to forget your own health . |
| 2 | When I get older I 'm going to have gold teeth like Peter — I reckon they look real good . |
| 3 | • As you get older , you tend to need less sleep . |
| 4 | As the children get older , evenings become valuable family time ; as we get older , early nights become increasingly attractive . |
| 5 | As the children get older , evenings become valuable family time ; as we get older , early nights become increasingly attractive . |
| 6 | For a few dogs such as Sombro , the drives of adolescence persist into adulthood and while the dog can be okay while fit and young , life can get increasingly tough as they get older . |
| 7 | Your heart will be healthier and you will be far less likely to have a heart attack or stroke when you get older than someone who has exercised very little during their life . |
| 8 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ I used not to , my dear , but I find that I 'm feeling the cold as I get older . |
| 10 | But then you realise it 's 30 or 40 miles to the nearest general hospital and that can be difficult particularly as you get older , ’ says Dr Tony Hill , consultant in public health medicine . |
| 11 | But both dearer money and emergency cuts in public spending can be averted , provided the Red Book figures gain credibility , rather than lose it , as they get older . |
| 12 | As children get older women are more likely to work , in the main part-time . |
| 13 | The good news is that as they get older , most young people stop offending . |
| 14 | You may have heard people speak about the loss of brain cells as we get older but , as Tony Buzan , expert in the working of the human mind , writes in his book Make the Most of Your Mind : |
| 15 | You may want to wind down your workload as you get older — but without a second income to replace your lost earnings , your options will be restricted . |
| 16 | As your children get older you will probably want to encourage them towards a more unselfish view of the world by pointing out that their rights have to be balanced against the rights of others — and that includes their parents . |
| 17 | As they get older and identify with you , they will want to copy your style of behaviour . |
| 18 | As children get older , it helps to hold short family meetings to discuss matters like holidays , which concern the whole family , and talk over anything which is important to the child — her pocket money or when to return home from a party . |
| 19 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 20 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 21 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they once were . |
| 22 | As we get older , we are not able to hear very high notes . |
| 23 | There are organic changes to the heart , and it becomes less efficient as we get older ; but lack of exercise causes more deterioration than simple ageing . |
| 24 | We lose some of the sense of taste as we get older , but the temptation to add more salt to food , and to eat salty foods , should be resisted — salt is best added only at the cooking stage ; not at the table . |
| 25 | And some doctors think that as we get older our bodies are less efficient in taking up some nutrients in food , so extra amounts may be needed . |
| 26 | Losing weight is more difficult as we get older , and it is infuriatingly easy for the weight to shoot back up again if dieting is relaxed . |
| 27 | Most of us need less sleep as we get older — perhaps five or six hours a night instead of eight . |
| 28 | ‘ Our outward appearance undoubtedly alters as we get older and for most people the condition of the skin and hair is the final arbiter of age . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It gets much worse as they get older , ’ they warn darkly . |
| 30 | This is why , as people get older , they may decrease dramatically in height . |