Example sentences of "[noun] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 2 | William says both his parents were riding enthusiasts and he got put on a horse at the age of three … his mother used to ride for Britian in the sixties and she 's encouraged him to compete … it used to terrify him at first and he never dreamt he 'd be good enough to compete … |
| 3 | ‘ My original recreation was riding , ’ said the amiable grandfather , who recalled his first time on a horse at the age of eight a wooden horse at Middletonin-Teesdale show . |
| 4 | WHEN that grand old man of the turf Jim Joel died last spring at the age of 97 , a condition in his will allowed the Queen Mother to choose any horse she wished from his estate . |
| 5 | The England manager hit back in the row with his former captain and said : ‘ I find it hard to understand how any player can retire from international football at the age of 30 . |
| 6 | But he has travelled 5000 miles to Edinburgh for expert help and is now all set to take his first faltering steps at the age of five . |
| 7 | John Parsons in Nice is saddened to see the former world No 1 humbled in another comeback attempt at the age of 35 |
| 8 | Semi-finalist at her first attempt at the age of 14 in 1990 , Capriati has largely flattered to deceive since and has yet to reach a Grand Slam final although she did capture the Olympic gold last year . |
| 9 | It was at this salon at the age of fifteen and a half , working for a day 's wages of £1 plus tips , that she came in contact with Justin de Villeneuve , the man who suggested she should pose for some photographs and who later was to become her mentor . |
| 10 | In his student days , he had been careful never to become involved in any radical movements , had joined the Komosol at the age of sixteen and become a card-carrying Party member before his 21st birthday . |
| 11 | The Associated Press news agency reported on May 23 that Hoang Van Hoan , a former member of the CPV politburo who defected to China in 1979 [ see p. 29876 ] , had died in exile at the age of 86 . |
| 12 | He continued his researches with vigour , having learned to drive a car at the age of seventy-five and despite the amputation of a leg three years later . |
| 13 | He made no allegations concerning his time in homes at the age of four , but complained about his time at the smallholding in Anglesey . |
| 14 | Educated in private schools , young Peter made his screen début at the age of eight in a British film , Poor Old Bill ( 1931 ) . |
| 15 | A short film would be shown of a man who 'd lost his memory through a cerebral stroke at the age of twenty-three , and was learning to programme his life so he could live alone , and then I would speak about the day-to-day struggle of living with someone who is in no-man 's world without reference and without time . |
| 16 | In retrospect , he says , ‘ Thatcherism did n't really offer anything to kids at the age of fourteen . |
| 17 | Born in an Edinburgh tenement in 1937 , he emigrated to the States at the age of 18 and has spent 31 years in the Marine Corps . |
| 18 | Retaining American citizenship ( between 1904 and 1925 , she and Raymond owned a home in Florida ) , she made her final visit to the United States at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 19 | Arati Prabhakar was born in India and moved to the United States at the age of 3 . |
| 20 | His parents were lawyers and when his father was sworn in Harry played at the ceremony at the age of six ! |
| 21 | His parents were lawyers and when his father was sworn in Harry played at the ceremony at the age of six ! |
| 22 | When I went to Bible college at the age of eighteen , hardly anybody had ever heard of my religious home . |
| 23 | Robert 's mum , a hospital staff nurse , said : ‘ Robert must have been an emergency because he had a vocabulary of four words at the age of three and speech therapy was no good to him because he could n't hear what they were trying to teach him . |
| 24 | His best work was his edition of the Oedipus Tyrannus ( 1920 ) which won him a Manchester honorary Litt.D. at the age of forty ; and The Pattern of the Iliad ( 1922 ) was based on his Manchester lectures on Homer . |
| 25 | On leaving the Institution at the age of 18 , he became interested in church work through the influence of a Rev. Mansfield Owen whose cousin was Pearce 's boyhood deaf friend . |
| 26 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |
| 27 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
| 28 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 29 | The aim of this project was to encourage girls to choose science subjects at the age of 14 ; to this end , the GIST researchers went into ten Manchester secondary schools and attempted to promote a more positive image of science that would appeal to girls , partly by helping science teachers develop a more ‘ girl-friendly ’ teaching style and partly by inviting female scientists to speak to pupils about their careers . |
| 30 | Restricted finances allowed only one appointment , that of Coleman , who became sole Professor at the age of 28 . |