Example sentences of "school at [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 2 | At one extreme , within the committee of officials charged with reshaping the national educational system , was the isolated Cleary who saw the common school at the age of eleven gradually extending itself across the whole of the secondary age range . |
| 3 | First , it was assumed , the opportunity of a transfer for the more able to grammar school at the age of thirteen ( or , very much later in the story , at the age of sixteen ) . |
| 4 | The Crowther Report demonstrated that two-thirds of grammar-school pupils in the 1950s had parents both of whom had left school at the age of fourteen . |
| 5 | In adult life they were confident that the eleven-plus had separated them from ‘ the dim ones ’ and saw no reason to be troubled about the ‘ intellectually inferior ’ working-class boys and girls who had left school at the age of fifteen or sixteen . |
| 6 | But the Circular also approved two-tier systems , where all pupils would transfer without selection or choice from a junior to a senior comprehensive school at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 7 | Leaving school at the age of 14 to study medicine , he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Worcester . |
| 8 | When Sarah herself left school at the age of 18 , she was n't sure whether she wanted to be a teacher or a nurse . |
| 9 | It 's difficult to believe that he was expelled from nursery school at the age of three for being a ‘ smart alec ’ . |
| 10 | Children come to school at the age of five already enriched with a whole range of mathematical experiences . |
| 11 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 12 | He had been expelled from grammar school at the age of sixteen , manufactured tie-dye T-shirts , and then worked in the refreshment kiosk in the monkey-house at London Zoo , where he had the distinction of organising the first strike ( of staff , not animals ) in the zoo 's history . |
| 13 | I 'm now a professor of mathematics , but I have not had any formal instruction in mathematics since I left St. Albans school at the age of seventeen . |
| 14 | A contemporary of Mrs Jay , Dan Pilgrim of Helmingham , remembers one of his first jobs on the farm after he left school at the age of twelve . |
| 15 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 16 | Leaving school at the age of twelve , Merrick found it increasingly difficult to find employment because of his deformities , and after jobs in a cigar factory and as a haberdashery pedlar he entered the Leicester Union Workhouse in 1879 . |
| 17 | He left Headington Quarry school at the age of nine , and was later apprenticed as a bricklayer . |
| 18 | He left the village school at the age of eleven , and helped his father in farming and sawing timber . |
| 19 | He left school at the age of fourteen to follow the same trade , and two years later in 1835 took over the management of a boat-building yard at Lincoln which his father had acquired . |
| 20 | Hill ran away from school at the age of twelve to work on an uncle 's farm . |
| 21 | His early childhood was spent in Leeds ; after a period at a dame school he went to Leeds Grammar School at the age of ten , leaving in 1867 to become an apprentice with the engineering firm of Carrett & Marshall of Hunslet , Leeds . |
| 22 | Only Eva and Margaret made the important transition to secondary school at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 23 | I left school at the age of 17 , anxious to get into the wider world , and without much thought went to the university of my home town , at that time a pretty universal habit . |
| 24 | After entering primary school at the age of 5 , children in England receive a common education until the age of 11 , when they enter secondary schools . |
| 25 | But if you look at science as a way of exploring their world , a world they can structure their curiosity about aspects of the physical world , about aspects of the environment , then I think we can do it very early indeed , probably from the time children can come to school at the age of five and from reception classes onwards . |
| 26 | But if you look at science as a way of exploring their world , a world they can structure their curiosity about aspects of the physical world , about aspects of the environment , then I think we can do it very early indeed , probably from the time children can come to school at the age of five and from reception classes onwards . |