Example sentences of "[noun pl] age [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 In a recent study colonoscopy was performed on 210 asymptomatic subjects aged 50–75 years with negative faecal occult bloods .
2 A total of 1272 men from the general population and 2099 retired coal miners aged 50–75 years took part in the study .
3 A group of 2037 retired coal miners aged 50–75 years was identified from the records of the North Nottinghamshire Miners ' Pension Fund ( with the cooperation of the Pension Fund Board and the Union of Democratic Mineworkers ) .
4 One arrest in four is of persons aged 10–16 years and half of all arrests are of persons under 21 years .
5 However , compared with patients aged 18–44 years , patients aged 45–64 ( RR=0.84 ) , 65–74 ( RR=1.28 ) , and 75–92 ( RR=1.99 ) were not significantly more likely to die during the 24 months after discharge ( all p0.2 ) .
6 For migrants aged 30–49 years , the ratio was 75 males for every 100 females ( Simmons , Diaz-Briquets and Laquia predominantly male ( ISS-PREALC 1983 ) .
7 6900 male and 3414 female civil servants aged 35–55 years .
8 West and Lowe concluded from their analysis of data in the fourteen hospital board regions in England and Wales that the provision of GPs and health visitors in the region was negatively correlated with such indicators of need as infant mortality rate , stillbirth rate and birth rate to mothers aged 15–19 years .
9 Also competing is a Yorkshire County age group team of 13 boys and seven girls aged 14–17 years , including Ben Shaw ( Harrogate ) .
10 Compared with the 18–44 year age group , the groups aged 45–64 years ( RR=1.30 , 95% CI 0.59 to 2.82 ) , 65–74 years ( RR=0.67 , 95% CI 0.21 to 2.09 ) , and 75–92 years ( RR=1.39 , 95% CI 0.59 to 3.24 ) did not have significantly higher risk of in-hospital mortality .
11 ii The National Study of Health and Growth ( NSHG ) , a surveillance study including , each year , around 9000 children aged 5–11 years , has previously reported results relating to two effects of passive smoking in children : firstly , a possible negative relation between children 's height and the reported number of cigarettes smoked by parents in the home , and secondly , a dose-response relation between prevalence of respiratory symptoms and parental smoking .
12 To determine whether birth weight and gestational age are associated with respiratory illness and lung function in children aged 5–11 years .
13 The legal definition of primary education covers children aged 5–11 years in England , Wales and Northern Ireland , and 5–12 years in Scotland .
14 Death rates of toddlers and children aged 2–3 years whose mothers had moved from urban to rural areas were lower than of children born to non-migrant urban mothers in all but eight and four countries , respectively .
15 Fiji reported a reverse pattern for all but infants and , in Guyana , better education was associated with lower mortality among children aged 2–3 years , but not among younger children .
16 No strong pattern emerged in the effect of mothers ' place of occupation upon the mortality of toddlers and of children aged 2–3 years .
17 For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group .
18 The analyses for people aged 15–24 were based mainly on data from the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry , which originally covered only children aged 0–14 years but was extended , as a result of the recommendations of the Black Advisory Group , to people aged 15–24 .
19 Table IV shows the numbers of cases of cancer together with the age standardised rates in children aged 0–14 years for each diagnostic group in the three study areas during 1963–83 and 1984–90 .
20 The present report covers the periods 1963–90 for children aged 0–14 years , 1969–90 for people aged 15–24 , and 1984–90 for leukaemia and lymphomas in adults .
21 Thus there is no evidence over the period from 1963 onwards that the excess found in Seascale extends to a wider area around Sellafield , though for the most recent period there was a slight increase in the incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the rest of Cumbria , particularly among children aged 0–4 years .
22 Case-control study of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma among children aged 0–4 years living in West Berkshire and North Hampshire health districts
23 54 children aged 0–4 years who had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed during 1972–89 , who were born in the study area and were resident there when cancer was diagnosed .
24 This study was set up to investigate whether the raised incidence of leukaemia in children aged 0–4 years in the West Berkshire and North Hampshire health districts , which was 60% above the national average in 1972–85 , was related to parental employment in the nuclear industry .
25 Programmes include : political campaigns and social action to develop play facilities for children aged 4–14 years ; a drop-in facility for anyone in the local neighbourhood ; a ‘ family friends ’ group ; a ‘ kidscape ’ project ; parents ' groups ; use of volunteers ; a home-school liaison project ; a scrap project providing employment and resources to the local community ; a health initiative .
26 In the WFS surveys , it relates to the age group 0–4 years , and may be divided into the mortality of children under one year ) see infant mortality ) , of one year old children ( sometimes called toddler mortality ) and of children aged 2–4 years ( child mortality in a narrow sense ) .
27 — for children aged 5–7 years .
28 MORE than 40 Powys children aged 9–13 years attended a circus skills workshop at Knighton organised by the Powys Health Promotion Unit .
29 Special Reductions for Children aged 2–16 years inclusive
30 All children must be aged 2–11 years inclusive on the day of departure ( unless taking advantage of the special offers for children aged 2–16 years inclusive shown on this page ) .
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