Example sentences of "at [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of sixty-eight Ingres made copies of masterpieces . |
| 2 | He wants to go to university , turns up to listen to Einstein , studies hard ; but his father wo n't have it , and at the age of 14 he becomes a soap boy in a barber 's and then a presser in a garment shop . |
| 3 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't stop there , ’ said Jay , pouring wine and beginning to understand why Jeremy was so precious , to be redeemed from his traumas and late-night binges even at the age of twenty-five . |
| 5 | Jennifer Capriati , who stormed onto the women 's pro tour at the age of 14 last year , is a product of both the Macci and Saddlebrook academies . |
| 6 | Former Macci pupils include Tommy Ho , who turned pro three years ago at the age of 15 , and Will Bull , the National Boys 18 runner-up in 1990 who is a rookie on the tour . |
| 7 | Last month , at the age of 38 , he won two more before bowing out to Michael Chang in the fifth set of their third round match . |
| 8 | At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting 's Alley , which was near the Royal Exchange . |
| 9 | Last year , at the age of 54 , the great fell-runner Joss Naylor ran from Pooley Bridge to Wasdale , only setting foot on tarmac as he crossed Kirkstone Pass and Dunmail Raise — a total distance of 47 miles with 16,200ft of ascent . |
| 10 | ‘ This can not be accident , it must be design , ’ he commented when at the age of 65 his great hour came . |
| 11 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |
| 12 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 13 | At the age of 33 she had breast cancer . |
| 14 | On an index of potential or actual delinquency at the age of 11 — based on stealing , truancy and trouble with neighbours , police or school — high scores were associated with severe or frequent corporal punishment . |
| 15 | At the age of 29 , Durie must be wondering how much longer she has left to get hooked on that habit which she toyed with briefly six years ago when she reached the lofty heights of the world 's top five . |
| 16 | One resident , Jim Goodson , aged 105 , who enlisted in the Army in 1902 at the age of 17 , remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform , an improvement on the red tunics which the Boers picked off so easily . |
| 17 | But the enthusiasm which burned inside Imre Pozsgay when he joined the party at the age of 17 has been extinguished by the bitter experiences of the past 40 years . |
| 18 | In 1965 , at the age of 32 , he became an apparatchik , first as a department head of the county party committee and then , in 1968 , its secretary . |
| 19 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 20 | Poliakoff had his first playwrighting success at the age of 19 but he has always been , to put it gently , a more grown-up dramatist than many of the pack of hairy , scary stage writers whose careers coincide with his . |
| 21 | Here was a lady who at the age of 50 had certainly decided to quit while she was ahead , and her moving and musically thoughtful recital confirmed it . |
| 22 | Her family was well off and at the age of 18 she was presented as a debutante . |
| 23 | Constant tugs of war between birth and adoptive parents would destroy the stability of the most rational child , who is presently adequately protected by the right to see birth parents at the age of 18 when the necessary information is available . |
| 24 | Tabley House is the 3,000-acre estate near Knutsford , which he inherited in 1770 at the age of eight . |
| 25 | He played for Bradford Park Avenue against Millwall in the Second Division 60 years ago at the age of 15 years , 158 days . |
| 26 | He died on Saturday at the age of 75 |
| 27 | SIMON PARKE became the youngest male player to represent England when at the age of 17 years and two months he helped his country to a second 3-0 victory in the World Team Championships here yesterday , this time against the hosts . |
| 28 | More nagging is the suspicion that Wallenberg did not die of a heart attack at the age of 35 , but was murdered or tortured to death . |
| 29 | George Shipley , the former Charlton midfield player who was released by Gillingham at the end of last season , has officially retired at the age of 30 on medical advice , after a series of knee operations . |
| 30 | Now , at last , at the age of 71 , things are starting to come right . |