Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the same age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stratigraphical and sedimentological data provided by the Purse Caundle Borehole include a section through the depocentre of the Inferior Oolite basin in northern Dorset , where a thick muddy peloidal limestone sequence ( formerly regarded as oolitic ) contrasts with thin ferruginous limestones of the same age on the Dorset coast . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Sisters or brothers are often close , and youngsters of the same age often strike up friendships ; but other horses may become friends for no apparent reason . |
| 4 | As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale . |
| 5 | Experiment 3 — Plants of the Same Age |
| 6 | Five pots of plants of the same age and grown under identical conditions were measured in turn over periods of fifteen to thirty minutes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For a few years chimpanzees raised in human households learn as well as human infants of the same age , but they soon reach the limit of their ability and are rapidly overtaken by human youngsters . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | For females aged over 21 there was a 281 per cent increase ( compared to 136 per cent for males of the same age group ) . |
| 11 | Standardization is a statistical technique which takes into account the differential age distribution ( see Table 4.11 ) and this suggests that older women do indeed experience more ill health than males of the same age . |
| 12 | As we have seen , sexual urge and performance vary quite widely even among persons of the same age group . |
| 13 | Two men in their early twenties and two girls about the same age . |
| 14 | Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class , where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her . |
| 15 | Wherever possible such parameters should be compared with those of embryos of the same age recovered in vivo . |
| 16 | For example , in the United States there was a 16 per cent decline in mortality rates among males aged 85 + and 36 per cent among females of the same age during the period 1965 — 85 ( Verbrugge 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Secondly , overt sexuality is found between siblings ( Finkelhor , 1980 ) and among kibbutz members of the same age ( Spiro , 1958 ; Kaffmann , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | Teenage mothers are not a significantly large group , nor are they a particularly increasing " problem " in this country , but their lives are quite different to those of other girls of the same age without children . |
| 19 | At the opposite end of the spectrum there are elderly people for whom death can become an all too familiar experience as their family and friends of the same age gradually die , leaving them more and more isolated . |
| 20 | If , say , you are a young person — student or worker — who has invited over friends of the same age , they will probably expect to bring a bottle of wine with them . |
| 21 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 22 | The NRPB favours a survey which includes comparison of the servicemen with their compatriots of the same age serving elsewhere . |
| 23 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
| 24 | It follows that the way in which the upper years of junior schools are organised should be seen — just as already happens for pupils of the same age in middle schools — as part of the process of securing good continuity between the primary and secondary phases . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The condition is , however , almost unknown among healthy men of the same age as those in the survey . |
| 27 | Women of 60 can expect to live to 80 , men of the same age to 75 ( Victor , 1987 , p. 109 ) . |
| 28 | Interest in whether parity and the use of oral contraceptives are associated with the development of symptomatic gall bladder disease has been stimulated by the consistent finding that women of reproductive age have a higher incidence of symptomatic and symptom free gall bladder disease compared with men of the same age . |
| 29 | Is it not obviously appropriate , the traditionalists argue , to introduce children of the same age and ability level to new subject areas at the same time ? |
| 30 | It replaced the previous categories of handicap with the concept of special educational needs , defined as existing where a child has significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age , or has a disability that prevents or hinders him or her from using the educational facilities normally available . |