Example sentences of "[adj] at the age of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 2 | They start with his poverty-stricken beginnings in turn-of-the-century Lambeth — all cliched , flat-capped urchins and ‘ wotcha , cock ’ — running straight through to Chaplin 's ambivalent acceptance of a special Oscar in 1972 at the age of 83 . |
| 3 | Was it a mania for translating bishops — represented at its oddest in the idea that it was sensible at the age of 73 to move the revered George Bell to one of these sees ? |
| 4 | They had one daughter , who died of typhoid in 1872 at the age of eight . |
| 5 | He retired from practice at the bar in the summer of 1802 at the age of fifty after a long and painful illness , having made a fortune . |
| 6 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 7 | I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood . |
| 8 | His brother Luke , whom Coleridge had come to know and revere in London , had died in 1790 at the age of twenty-five ; Nancy , loved ‘ most tenderly ’ , had succumbed to tuberculosis the following year at only twenty-one . |
| 9 | Karl Carstens , who served as West German Federal President in 1979-84 , died in Meckenheim near Bonn on May 30 at the age of 77 . |
| 10 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 11 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 12 | Thomas William Stott , who became ill and died at Davenham CC 's AGM in November 1991 at the age of 74 , was one of the longest serving cricket administrators in the country . |
| 13 | Arthur Sidney Herbert , who died suddenly in hospital in April 1991 at the age of 78 , was a member of Ealing for over 40 years and in his younger days was a good all-rounder for the first XI . |
| 14 | Kurt Nielsen , who died in Aalborg , Denmark on March 26 at the age of 79 , was responsible for giving cricket in Denmark the injection necessary to raise it from mediocrity to a worthy associate member of the International Cricket Council . |
| 15 | Jacobo Arenas died of a heart attack on Aug. 10 at the age of 74 . |
| 16 | Er normally as I said earlier payable at the age of sixty erm and the benefits are based on average salary which is the best three hundred and sixty five days out of the last ten ninety five so it 's the best year out of the last three years salary . |
| 17 | He continued to hunt and race till he was well over 83 , dying in 1826 at the age of 86 . |
| 18 | John Wesley recollected how when he read Holy Living and Holy Dying at the age of twenty-two ‘ instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts and words and actions ’ . |
| 19 | Ilija Crijević from Ragusa ( Aelius Lampridius Cervinus ) became a member of the Quirinal Academy in Rome in 1484 at the age of twenty-one years , and was crowned poet laureate for a treatise on Virgil . |
| 20 | Gerald Rhodes wrote in the Epilogue to his Extracts : ‘ He died on 12th March 1877 at the age of 60 and , as was his wish , was buried in Lydham churchyard alongside his wife , Emily . |
| 21 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 22 | Since his death in 1963 at the age of twenty-nine , a suspiciously large number of works has appeared on the market . |
| 23 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 24 | But if , as in your son 's case , the foreskin is still tight at the age of five or six , then it could lead to inflammation and discomfort — an infection could fester under the foreskin , causing redness , soreness and swelling . |
| 25 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 26 | To have died in 1940 at the age of 35 is to have experienced in different ways the dramatic historical upheavals of the interwar period , and in particular in Nizan 's case , the post-revolutionary development of the Soviet Union and the growth of the French communist party . |
| 27 | Joe Selwyn joined the Glosters in 1932 at the age of 18 and spent over a decade in the land of the Raj . |
| 28 | The King , who had been compelled to abdicate in 1975 at the age of 69 , apparently had died in 1984 of malaria contracted in a detention centre [ for former denial of King 's death see p. 36293 ] . |
| 29 | I 'd have been very happy playing an old lady of ninety at the age of fifteen . |
| 30 | Anton Perera , on of Sri Lanka 's great sportsmen and journalists , died suddenly in Bangkok on March 21 at the age of 67 . |