Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva gained the " magic key " to the university world when she won a government scholarship to Brisbane University at the age of seventeen . |
| 2 | Gleave , one Liverpool 's wartime air heroes , has died in a Berkshire hospital at the age of 84 . |
| 3 | The birth was at Queen Charlotte 's hospital in London , and the child was made a ward of court with Hammersmith and Fulham Council at the age of four days . |
| 4 | She looks after her 16-year-old granddaughter , Laurel , a precocious pyromaniac , who , ‘ by some extraordinary carelessness was violated in Hyde Park at the age of 12 ’ . |
| 5 | All the same , it took a rather special sense of self to turn down an England trial at the age of 19 on the grounds that Scotland might want him instead . |
| 6 | She had lost that on top of the Yardley bus at the age of twelve . |
| 7 | I 'm now a professor of mathematics , but I have not had any formal instruction in mathematics since I left St. Albans school at the age of seventeen . |
| 8 | He was holding a bat at his nearby Brize Norton ground at the age of 6 and was in the village side at 11 . |
| 9 | And he grows hellebores Christmas Roses to the uninitiated — and has done so professionally since retiring from his job as a mathematics lecturer at Manchester University at the age of 50 , 18 months ago . |
| 10 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 11 | Began flute studies at Peabody Conservatory at the age of eight . |
| 12 | They did for a couple of years , and he won several tournaments and appeared in the Ryder Cup at the age of twenty-two . |