Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 2 | All the alleged incidents are said to have taken place between 1980 when he was fostered at the age of six by the family and 1985 . |
| 3 | All the alleged incidents are said to have taken place between 1980 when he was fostered at the age of six by the family and 1985 . |
| 4 | He was hanged at the age of 22 . |
| 5 | Patient 101 — presented at the age of 66 years with intermittent diarrhoea . |
| 6 | It was about six miles , a fair way for children , but we delighted in the story of what my father had done at the age of six . |
| 7 | The assumption was that , with sufficient care , pupils could be selected at the age of eleven on the basis of a prediction of their success in pursuing an academic education . |
| 8 | For many years little notice was taken of Wordsworth 's writings before 1798 , but even the School Exercise written at the age of fourteen ( Poetical Works , i , 259–61 ) is useful as an illustration of the faults of eighteenth-century style ; it is written in heroic couplets , in imitation of the work of Alexander Pope , and contains an excessive use of personification : |
| 9 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 10 | To start with , his Sonata No. 1 , written at the age of 19 , inhabits the same romantic hothouse as his teacher Franz Schreker — rather attractively and close to early Berg but without the discipline of his concise Piano Sonata , Op. 1 . |
| 11 | Attention to the proper development of the grammar schools required some surprising changes : the payment of pupils to defeat the rival attractions of early employment , extra investment for able pupils in primary schools , the conversion of Public Schools into boarding grammar schools , more efficient testing and selecting , and ( since some talent would still be missed at the age of eleven , or developed later ) continuous and lifelong selection . |
| 12 | In Aden Nizan rediscovered his emotional strength , rediscovered , in short , the personality that he had relinquished at the age of twelve , at the moment of his father 's personal crisis . |
| 13 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 14 | In the middle of the decade , Michael Reeves stamped his mark on the horror genre with Witchfinder General ( 1968 , The Conqueror Worm in US ) , his last film made at the age of 23 for Tigon , set amidst the witch hunts of the English Civil War . |
| 15 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 16 | This is particularly important , and I 'm now riding my own hobby horse , but in the area of science erm we have a situation that erm in most secondary schools choice has to be made at the age of thirteen , fourteen , by boys and girls as to which subjects they should take . |
| 17 | When seen at the age of six , he had poor muscle control and could not fasten up his buttons or tie his shoe-laces . |
| 18 | He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to Robert Napier [ q.v. ] at the Vulcan works in Glasgow , at the same time attending classes at the Andersonian Institution in the city . |
| 19 | In Florence , Wolfgang met his English contemporary , Thomas Linley — another supremely gifted prodigy who was to die tragically young ( he was drowned at the age of 21 ) . |
| 20 | Olive Booth , lieutenant Colonel in the Salvation Army and a grand-daughter of its founder , has died at the age of 98 . |
| 21 | Alexander Camaro , the Berlin artist , has died at the age of ninety-one . |
| 22 | OLIVIER MESSIAEN has died at the age of 83 . |
| 23 | The contralto Alfreda Hodgson has died at the age of 51 . |
| 24 | In September 1197 the Emperor Henry VI had died at the age of 32 , leaving an heir who was little more than a baby . |
| 25 | His older sister had died at the age of 6 months after an identical clinical course . |
| 26 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |
| 27 | The former Gloucestershire MP , Lord Ridley , has died at the age of sixty-four . |
| 28 | The former miners ' leader , Lord Gormley , has died at the age of seventy-five . |
| 29 | The actor , Robert Morley , has died at the age of eighty-four . |
| 30 | The comedian , Les Dawson , has died at the age of fifty-eight . |