Example sentences of "left school at 16 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 . |
| 2 | Most of us left school at 16 with four O-levels , including art and needlework , but here was a high-flying Cambridge man . |
| 3 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 4 | Among the topics to be explored are the choice made at 16 between the various options available , the effect of marriage and childbirth on the career progress of both men and women , and the factors which explain occupational success and income by age 23 among people who left school at 16 . |
| 5 | I left school at 16 without much in the way of qualifications . |
| 6 | He spent his childhood in Lincoln and left school at 16 to join his father 's jewellery shop . |