Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] at the age of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the National Child Development Study which covered all children born during a week in 1958 found that at the age of 7 years there was a far higher proportion of children from the lower socio-economic groups who had not been immunised against smallpox , polio and diphtheria . |
| 2 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 3 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 4 | ‘ This can not be accident , it must be design , ’ he commented when at the age of 65 his great hour came . |
| 5 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
| 6 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 7 | However , even at kindergarten his rebellious streak was showing and at the age of five or six he was playing truant . |
| 8 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 9 | Her husband John was made redundant from Parsonage pit in an earlier wave of closures , and she believes that at the age of 41 he will never work again . |
| 10 | You will learn that at the age of nineteen he was practising his public speaking at Hyde Park Corner ; you will learn that he reads the Sun to keep his finger on the public pulse . |