Example sentences of "a younger [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the debate intensifies over the BBC 's Charter — virtually its right to broadcast — which is up for renewal in 1996 , a younger chairman is needed to take the corporation into the next century , critics say , but Mr Hussey was tightlipped as he flew in from Hong Kong . |
| 2 | More especially it is a means of showing the changing moods and capacities of the hero of Victorious Troy , a younger hero than the capable Cruiser Trewsbury . |
| 3 | An elderly unstable diabetic patient admitted for surgery , for instance , is obviously going to require more hospital treatment than a younger fitter patient . |
| 4 | The South African van der Bijl , bowling for Middlesex , was like a younger Lord Longford , ‘ though not nearly so tolerant ’ . |
| 5 | Unless we get a WORLD class player … like a younger Gullit , or maybe Ndlove … |
| 6 | Those whom he taught within St Victor provoked the criticism of a younger fellow-canon , Richard , that they were ‘ judaizing ’ — that is , understanding the Old Testament primarily as Jews rather than as Christians . |
| 7 | She ran off with a younger film star . |
| 8 | To a younger worker who had not yet specialised and could more easily be re-employed without seriously losing status , the threat might be less serious . |
| 9 | This was the time when a younger Jason Lunn and Pete Dossett would have been seen skating at Farnborough . |
| 10 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
| 11 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 12 | Being managed by a younger person |
| 13 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , the older person might be willing to take a higher risk of death during surgery than a younger person . |
| 15 | It originates from considering , for example , the situation where an older and a younger person would benefit equally from treatment but resources allow only one to be treated . |
| 16 | As a younger person I , I would expect that I 've probably got another fifteen years to go to the menopause , but I 'm looking forward to it as a relief from pre-menstrual syndrome ! |
| 17 | You know probably if you got a younger person , he probably would have been after him , square up to him , and erm . |
| 18 | A younger person , for example , may need help with housing , assistance in finding a way through the complex welfare benefit system , help with using the local rehabilitation facilities at a day centre or day hospital , help in planning a return to work , and so on . |
| 19 | But in the case of a younger person , looking for er very secure growth , it 's not a bad thing to do . |
| 20 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 21 | What we need is a younger person . ’ |
| 22 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 23 | But the lady has asked that a younger person benefit so they do n't go through what she has endured . ’ |
| 24 | But the 77-year-old victim , who was pushed around by two youngsters aged about ten , has asked that a younger person benefits from the dog . |
| 25 | He 's had , offer offered to stand down if he can get a younger person that will run it . |
| 26 | No life that though is it for a younger person ? |
| 27 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 28 | She fed him well , but he was not comfortable there , as she nearly always had a younger man around . |
| 29 | The First Wives Club is a very American book : in its deification of designer labels and dinner at La Cirque , in its fashionable political correctness ( having taken revenge on their rich , white , middle-aged husbands , the ex-wives find true love with , variously , a lesbian , an impoverished Puerto Rican lawyer , and a younger man ) , but , above all , in the phenomenon it describes . |
| 30 | Day noticed that Slatter was accompanied by a younger man , much of the same ilk . |