Example sentences of "in her early " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a young friend in her early twenties who wants to do some A-levels at a reasonable nightschool in London . |
| 2 | So for Mhoira Robertson to achieve the rank of superintendent while still in her early forties was as surprising and , to some of her colleagues , as unwelcome as female preachers were to Dr Johnson . |
| 3 | One of the ‘ Blue Chips ’ , regarded in her early days as little better than an Edward Heath Youth Movement , the new Secretary of State for the Environment is now her green-eyed boy . |
| 4 | In her early years as Prime Minister she largely left the negotiations over Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ) and the EEC budget to the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 6 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 7 | Since he now sounded flustered , Penelope Huntley looked with interest at the intruder : a good-looking , slightly overweight woman probably in her early forties , carefully dressed but uncertain . |
| 8 | For example if I am in my late fifties and I have a mother in her early eighties and she dies I will grieve for her . |
| 9 | On her return to Broadway Miss Picon played a string of leads — all in Yiddish — at Kessler 's Theatre , and won such acclaim that while still in her early thirties she was top of the bill at the Palace , America 's leading vaudeville house , and had a New York theatre named after her . |
| 10 | Neighbours said Magee 's wife , Fiona , who is in her early 20s , and 12-month-old son , Kevin , had left their rented terrace home in Silver Hill Road , less than half-a-mile from Charnwood Street . |
| 11 | After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life . |
| 12 | When interviewed by the Standard in 1982 for the 75th Anniversary Celebrations , Lorna Bloxam recalled her biking years in about 1910 when she was in her early teens and lived by Henley bridge . |
| 13 | Bragg 's knock was answered by a good-looking woman in her early thirties . |
| 14 | She had worn it almost shaved in her early teaching days , a vulnerable stubble on a white and shivering scalp . |
| 15 | In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light . |
| 16 | Alongside sat a girl in her early thirties with titian hair , good bone-structure and an excellent figure concealed beneath the windcheater she wore . |
| 17 | Muriel , the only daughter , was in her early teens , the boys all younger , down to Herbert aged just four . |
| 18 | Of the three ladies who were attending to her , two were in middle age and the third in her early thirties . |
| 19 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 20 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 21 | Days when the summer was like a beauty in her early forties , full-blown and creasing , but warm and dear . |
| 22 | I was also warned to stay away from the tennis court if anyone was playing , but on one Saturday , a party was in progress and Miss Betty Farr , who must have been in her early twenties , spotted me trying not to be seen , called me over and plied me with cakes and lemonade . |
| 23 | Mum said that in the opinion of Gran , it was God 's judgement — as whilst the bridegroom was almost sixty years of age , his bride was in her early twenties . |
| 24 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 25 | At one stage , in her early fifties , the depression had been so bad that she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 26 | Sheila was a healthy woman in her early forties , who drove a delivery van for a chemical manufacturer . |
| 27 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 28 | Miss Harder was a spinster in her early fifties who ran a small tobacconist 's shop in London 's Archway . |
| 29 | Sylvia was an intelligent woman , quite sensible enough to realize that there was probably some reason in her early life for the current problem . |
| 30 | Cathy was a client in her early thirties , who was referred to me after her partner abruptly walked out on her . |