Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [det] age " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 's a lot of pressure to lose your virginity by a certain age , ’ says Phil Keer , a confident 16-year-old who has a steady girlfriend of the same age .
2 Stratigraphical and sedimentological data provided by the Purse Caundle Borehole include a section through the depocentre of the Inferior Oolite basin in northern Dorset , where a thick muddy peloidal limestone sequence ( formerly regarded as oolitic ) contrasts with thin ferruginous limestones of the same age on the Dorset coast .
3 One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period .
4 The principle of including words of a former age in a modern rite is well established through the use of anthems .
5 Boyz N The Hood has more of a connection because it is dealing with kids of the same age group , although Juice deals with an entirely different set of issues . ’
6 Since the publication of the first edition of this book , I have seen a remarkably similar rock of the same age — the Cupido Limestone — dominating the Mesozoic scenery in north-east Mexico .
7 A fourteen year old boy has been charged with wounding with intent after a boy of the same age was stabbed in the back .
8 Sisters or brothers are often close , and youngsters of the same age often strike up friendships ; but other horses may become friends for no apparent reason .
9 Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year .
10 When you have a child of the same age as Jonathan , it really hits home . ’
11 His view is shared by Graham , an actor of the same age .
12 As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale .
13 Experiment 3 — Plants of the Same Age
14 Five pots of plants of the same age and grown under identical conditions were measured in turn over periods of fifteen to thirty minutes .
15 For a few years chimpanzees raised in human households learn as well as human infants of the same age , but they soon reach the limit of their ability and are rapidly overtaken by human youngsters .
16 Between 1959 and 1977 , the number of female offenders per 100,000 of the population aged 14 to under 17 increased by 379 per cent ( compared to a 148 per cent increase for males of the same age group ) .
17 For females aged over 21 there was a 281 per cent increase ( compared to 136 per cent for males of the same age group ) .
18 Standardization is a statistical technique which takes into account the differential age distribution ( see Table 4.11 ) and this suggests that older women do indeed experience more ill health than males of the same age .
19 In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants .
20 As we have seen , sexual urge and performance vary quite widely even among persons of the same age group .
21 Thus an able 11-year-old pupil might attain level 7 in a particular subject while a pupil of the same age in the same school who has learning difficulties might reach level 3 .
22 Further analyses by age and marital status showed that married people less often spent any time in residential homes than single or previously married people of the same age .
23 Even people of the same age and sex can differ considerably in the energy they burn up to keep their bodies going .
24 To view this situation as ‘ normal ’ is unacceptable , especially when other people of the same age do not suffer in this way , and when there is considerable evidence that much can be done to overcome or alleviate the handicap .
25 Yes , people of the same age and build may have a difference in metabolic rate of up to one-third .
26 And I 've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure , two people of the same age setting out together , discovering together , growing together .
27 Work something out , its rather extraordinary happens to people of the same age as me
28 Nevertheless , there is even worse to come , for on the other side of the Atlantic in Texas , we find the Austin Chalk of the same age and character , and later Cretaceous chalks ( still contemporaneous with the European development ) are found in Arkansas , Mississippi and Alabama .
29 In fact a man in his late forties is five times more likely to die of heart disease than a woman of the same age .
30 For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age .
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