Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm past the age for romance . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm at the age , that er more things come to you than your old age pension book . |
| 3 | But that 's just how I was until the age of twelve , I recognise myself . |
| 4 | Contrary to what some people believe , you do not need to be very rich ; nor for that matter is it too late to start thinking about investing once you are over the age of 55 . |
| 5 | There are advantages in transferring the investments to your wife altogether so that the income arises to her if she has spare allowances , or if you are in the age allowance trap and she is not . |
| 6 | So I 've put us all in together as a group entry — sorry , Rainbow , not you , bubbeleh , you 're under the age limit — and I have costumes for you three girls upstairs . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't say she was pleased or overjoyed , but she said , ‘ You 're at the age where I ca n't tell you not to do it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're past the age when you can be forgiven for not holding your liquor . |
| 9 | This last point could assume importance if , say , you were over the age of 50 or working in a field where the supply of skills exceeds demand . |
| 10 | This last point could assume importance if , say , you were over the age of 50 or working in a field where the supply of skills exceeds demand . |
| 11 | ‘ Presumably she 's past the age of consent . ’ |
| 12 | She is near the age we were Ellen when we first went into service and has no idea how things should be done . |
| 13 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 14 | As at today 's date , she was at the age of twenty , as she i , as at today 's date she , at the age of twenty four , would have had a further working life of thirty six years . |
| 15 | We are in the Age of Information . |
| 16 | We are in the age of the monopolies , one might say of the empires . |
| 17 | We are in the age of criticism — and social criticism transpires even from the involuted imagery of Zoroaster 's Gathas . |
| 18 | Some women are worried that once they are past the age for having children , they will stop enjoying sex . |
| 19 | ‘ Does n't matter if they 're still at school , as long as they 're over the age of consent and on the Pill . |
| 20 | We recruit new customers once they 're over the age of 16 . |
| 21 | But most of the women over there they , you could say they 're , they 're by the age of , of childbearing |
| 22 | I mean there were four or five knocking on door of er a friend of mine the other day , who said y They were they were under the age of ten . |
| 23 | In many cities traffic speeds are now slower than they were in the age of the horse , and in California the average speed is expected to drop for 53 kilometres per hour now to 24 by 2000 . |
| 24 | It 's in the age . |
| 25 | I mean he 's at the age of being incontinent int he ? |
| 26 | Well I I think er he 's of the age where he was unwilling to learn . |
| 27 | It was about the age when I started thinking about things . |
| 28 | It was in the Age Group finals at the Grove that young Fergus clocked a Gold medal time ( 71.31 secs ) that has earned him selection by Ireland for the British Age Group championships in Leeds two months from now . |
| 29 | But when he came to trade them in and filled in his application , he was told he was beyond the age limit . |
| 30 | Uncle Bill as he was at the age of twenty-eight over seventy years ago . |