Example sentences of "younger [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then some of the younger macaques began paddling in the sea and eventually took the plunge and learned how to swim . |
| 2 | There are two reasons why the habit spread faster among the younger macaques . |
| 3 | Make a Monster is good fun , letting the younger user design their own creations using a mix-and-match technique of arms , heads , legs , eyes etc . |
| 4 | In summary , Paint and Create does very little that has not been done elsewhere — but what it does achieve is to bring together in one coherent and consistent product a series of easy to use enjoyable programs that will delight the younger user , and more importantly provoke use of imagination and of creative thought . |
| 5 | This is the other recent Europress Software release and is designed to help the younger user master basic techniques of spelling and grammar ( OK big yawns etc — but wait a second , because this is one of the best of its type ! ) . |
| 6 | It is designed to be a first maths program for the younger user and is suitable for the 3 to 6 years age group , depending on the level of computer familiarity . |
| 7 | The graphics are of a high standard , the sound is good , the interface is easy for the younger user , and it succeeds in holding the younger users attention . |
| 8 | Of course the younger user is unlikely to continually switch between the three , but continuity of product and of interface is still very important — my six year old expects to find certain controls linked to certain keys — how do you answer the question ‘ why does n't this key to the same as in the other Fun School ones ? ? ? ’ . |
| 9 | The Danish data show that the potent proton pump inhibitor omeprazole is being common used ( up to 10% ) , especially among the younger longterm users . |
| 10 | Tolerance and generosity were the keynotes of his relations with his colleagues and younger associates . |
| 11 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |
| 12 | Younger cohabiting men said they might have enough sex with their girlfriends , but would ideally like more sexual partners . |
| 13 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 14 | All this could be done by giving a life estate to the head of the family ; with the remainder to his sons successively in tail-male , with remainder to the daughters in tail , subject to a rentcharge in favour of the life tenant 's widow upon his death , and in favour of any other persons desired to be benefited ; and with power to the trustees to create long leases in the property for the purpose of charging the lease in order to provide portions for younger sons and daughters who did not inherit the land . |
| 15 | Jonathon , born a second son , was trained for the Church , as so many younger sons of local aristocrats were . |
| 16 | In principle a given plot of land produced one knight for a specified length of time each year ; to ensure that the service was regular and the responsibility clear , attempts were made — never very successfully , except for a time in England — to keep the holdings intact , to prevent their being divided between younger sons . |
| 17 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 18 | In part this was a purely secular expansion , and the usual causes — rising population and prosperity , the plethora of younger sons , and the rest — may be found for it . |
| 19 | To her intense humiliation , Luke , Angel , Alejandro , three of Alejandro 's sons , and two of their friends who 'd come to lunch were playing on one pitch while Perdita had been put on another with Alejandro 's three younger sons and four of their cousins — none of them a day over twelve . |
| 20 | They breed cattle and sheep , and their two younger sons help them . |
| 21 | The 16-year-old boy complained that his mother , who remarried and had three younger sons by her second husband , kept picking on him and ridiculing him . |
| 22 | If the order is to be disrupted it is because one of the younger sons shows remarkable promise but being a ‘ family ’ anxious to demonstrate tolerance , envy and jealousy are masked and can certainly be dissipated if it is suggested that the elder brothers had a hand in the development . |
| 23 | Of course , younger sons often enjoy their mothers ' particular favour , but most do not have a mother like Elena to indulge them . |
| 24 | Younger sons went into the British Army , and one became a distinguished admiral in the Royal Navy . |
| 25 | Her husband is from a good family ; in fact he is distantly connected with the Crane-Boulder 's family , but … but he was the youngest son , and you know what positions go to the younger sons . ’ |
| 26 | In other households there will be younger sons and daughters who are in paid work and this is more likely to be the case among those households in which the younger elderly live . |
| 27 | If a freeholder stood in no immediate need of a government office for himself , he would normally have sons or other relatives to provide for , and what other outlets were open to younger sons or brothers without capital save patronage appointments ? |
| 28 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 29 | The device also enabled the lord to mitigate the rigour of primogeniture and make provision for younger sons , for daughters , and for the endowment of Masses for his soul and the souls of members of his family . |
| 30 | And the plight of even generously endowed younger sons like William Rufus and Eon of Penthièvre could arouse sympathy among their contemporaries . |