Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] at the age " in BNC.

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1 According to the Shaka'ik biography of Mehmed Sah , the latter was appointed to that medrese at the age of eighteen ( Mecdi gives seventeen ) ; and it is clear from that account that Fahreddin Acemi was his muid at the time of his first lesson .
2 It was at this salon at the age of fifteen and a half , working for a day 's wages of £1 plus tips , that she came in contact with Justin de Villeneuve , the man who suggested she should pose for some photographs and who later was to become her mentor .
3 The funeral 's taken place in Orkney of the former Liberal leader , Lord Grimond , who died earlier this week at the age of eighty .
4 The funeral 's taken place in Orkney of the former Liberal leader , Lord Grimond , who died earlier this week at the age of eighty .
5 there 'll be a minutes silence before that cup match tomorrow in memory of Gloucester club secretary Terry Tandy who died this week at the age of 57 … he served the club for twenty five years … he was a cherry and white through and through
6 John Chope , retired this year at the age of 65 — after 52 year 's service with the RNLI .
7 He had posed for that portrait at the age of twenty-two ; a year later he was in the Crimea .
8 Women who have worked all their adult lives and paid full Class 1 contributions should get a full basic pension in their own right at the age of 60 .
9 She was born , and christened Roberta Anne Penrose , in Melbourne , Australia , nearly thirty-three years ago , but left that country at the age of five to accompany her parents to England .
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