Example sentences of "[noun prp] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Arati Prabhakar was born in India and moved to the United States at the age of 3 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She writes : ‘ I entered the Diplomatic Service straight from Somerville , and was already abroad on my first assignment in Hungary at the age oftwenty-one . |
| 6 | He died on Saturday at the age of 75 |
| 7 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 8 | THE DEATH of Harry Boot on 8 February at the age of 65 removes a distinguished figure from those who contributed in an outstanding way to the successful application of British science to radar during the Second World War . |
| 9 | Robert Purdew died on 11 May at the age of 66 . |
| 10 | The former leader of the Liberal Party , Lord Grimond , has died in Orkney at the age of 80 . |
| 11 | The former leader of the Liberal Party , Lord Grimond , has died in hospital on Orkney at the age of eighty . |
| 12 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 13 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 14 | He came to England at the age of three , when his father received a London posting . |
| 15 | Tributes have been pouring in following the death of Grant Thornton 's senior tax partner Philip Hardman on 4 January at the age of 56 , after a long fight against cancer . |
| 16 | Lady Dorothy was a lively and captivating young girl , as can be seen in the portrait by G. F. Watts [ q.v. ] , painted in Florence at the age of seventeen . |
| 17 | Jim Wharton for example , born in Virginia in 1813 ( five years before Molyneux 's death in Scotland at the age of 34 ) , campaigned in England in the 1830s . |
| 18 | A PILLAR of the Baptist Church in North Wales has died in hospital at Wrexham at the age of 76 . |
| 19 | Then my husband died in July at the age of 82 . |
| 20 | Thus , in John Burningham 's ABC ( 1964 ) , as the clown is doffing his hat , Katherine at the age of three found ‘ C ’ for hat' . |
| 21 | of the world 's largest media group , Time Warner , died on 20th December at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer which had forced him increasingly to withdraw from the business over the past year . |
| 22 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 23 | When I er er were in the tool room at , Newark at the age of twenty one plus , you see , not twenty two er I was approached then by a shop steward who worked on the bench , was a fitter . |
| 24 | On Nov. 30 , 1989 , Ahmadou Ahidjo , the former President of Cameroon who held office from independence in 1960 until his retirement in 1982 , died of a heart attack in Senegal at the age of 65 . |
| 25 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 26 | Born in London 26 years ago , Hughes was transported to Ireland at the age of five . |
| 27 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 28 | After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories . |
| 29 | He remained physically active far into old age , riding from Westmorland to Cambridge at the age of sixty , and walking in the hills in his seventies . |
| 30 | William John Johnston , with very little formal education , emigrated to Canada at the age of 25 , graduated from McGill University as Bachelor of Divinity . |