Example sentences of "[verb] at an early age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you start painting at an early age ? |
| 2 | Did you start painting at an early age ? |
| 3 | The quest for dominance starts at an early age , and even kids spar with one another . |
| 4 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 5 | So many good young dogs have been ruined at an early age by incompetent trainers . |
| 6 | If true , it should follow that antral cancer would be more common and would occur at an early age in those parts of the world where the majority of the population already have serum antibodies to the organism before adult life . |
| 7 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 8 | MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club . |
| 9 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |
| 10 | Five years ago , schools were asked to develop their programme of personal relationships so that the right sort of foundations could be laid at an early age . |
| 11 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 12 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 13 | They quote the comprehensive review by Haggard and Hughes , which states that glue ear probably causes considerable disability only if it results in persistent impaired hearing starting at an early age . |
| 14 | In 1839 he married in Canada Sarah Antoinette ( died 1843 ) , daughter of Henry Veicht of Madeira ; they had two sons , one of whom died at an early age and the other , Beaufort , who became a general in the Canadian army . |
| 15 | George knew at an early age that he would like to pursue a career in engineering . |
| 16 | Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change . |
| 17 | It was learning at an early age that her natural mother had abandoned her which sent the shock waves vibrating through her childhood , adolescence and early adulthood . |
| 18 | Diana learned at an early age that there were strict rules that had to be adhered to if she aspired to marry the heir to the throne . |
| 19 | Afflicted at an early age |
| 20 | Burrows also believes that smacking can be started at an early age . |
| 21 | These findings raise the possibility that the results with deep dyslexics , which appear to show a facilitating effect of highly imageable words on reading performance , might just as plausibly be attributed to the fact that such words tend to be learned at an early age in life . |
| 22 | These are learned at an early age and reflect the bias and background of our parents . |
| 23 | The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age . |
| 24 | , Isaac ( d. 1699 ) , Hebrew scholar and bibliophile , was born in Spain and taken at an early age to Hamburg . |
| 25 | Little is known of his childhood , though it is said he developed a talent for drawing at an early age . |
| 26 | Now 48 , Mr Ames realised at an early age that the nine to five routine was not for him . |
| 27 | Philip Ames realised at an early age that the nine to five routine was not for him . |
| 28 | Speech patterns are formed at an early age and are firmly established — part of our way of life , an almost subconscious activity , rather in the same way as chewing or walking . |
| 29 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 30 | This dog would clearly have been a dual champion had he not been killed at an early age , constituting a great loss to the Australian show scene . |