Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the same age [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were also much more likely to be unemployed — whilst 30 per cent of the white 16 — 19 year olds were out of work , 46 per cent of the West Indians and 35 per cent of the Asians in the same age group were . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | For females aged over 21 there was a 281 per cent increase ( compared to 136 per cent for males of the same age group ) . |
| 6 | As we have seen , sexual urge and performance vary quite widely even among persons of the same age group . |
| 7 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 8 | The national surveys of disability conducted by OPCS in 1985 revealed a higher prevalence of disability among women aged 75 and over than men in the same age group . |
| 9 | And , according to outplacement specialists InterExec , when men and women of the same age group are pitted against each other , women are still offered jobs 25% faster than men . |
| 10 | In 1901 58 per cent of men aged 65 were married compared with 78 per cent in 1981 ; for women of the same age group the proportions classed as married at these two time points were 38 per cent and 46 per cent respectively . |
| 11 | The average number of days per year on which people in non-manual groups experience restricted activity due to illness are 32 among men aged 65 and over and 46 for women in the same age group . |
| 12 | In the total population ( including those in communal establishments ) the prevalence of severe disability ( OPCS categories 8–10 ) was 107 per 1,000 among men aged 75 and over and 154 among women in the same age group ( Martin , Meltzer and Elliot , 1988 , p. 22 ) . |
| 13 | Breast cancer causes 14 per cent of female deaths in the same age group . |