Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOPE grower Ronald Jenkins was fined yesterday for cultivating cannabis at the age of 71 . |
| 2 | Born in the depressed town of Flint , Michigan , 21 years ago , Me Phi Me ( who uses the symbol of the Greek letter phi to spell out his middle name ) started writing poetry at the age of six , before graduating to rapping on the streets . |
| 3 | In later life he seems to have returned to his early interest in astronomy ( on which he had already been writing papers at the age of eighteen ) . |
| 4 | While the actual form of SATs is liable to change , the process of testing pupils at the age of 11 is unlikely to do so . |
| 5 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 6 | Scott started taking marijuana at the age of eleven . |
| 7 | He had n't concentrated on one thing for years now as he had when he 'd started collecting stamps at the age of nine , so careful , so worried , so never leaving anything for a minute that could be done straight away by him . |
| 8 | BORN in Tunica , Mississippi in 1925 , Doctor Isiah Ross ( the ‘ Doctor ’ nickname evolved from his habit of reading medical books while in the army ) began playing harmonica at the age of six . |
| 9 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 10 | Leaving school at the age of 14 to study medicine , he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Worcester . |
| 11 | Leaving school at the age of twelve , Merrick found it increasingly difficult to find employment because of his deformities , and after jobs in a cigar factory and as a haberdashery pedlar he entered the Leicester Union Workhouse in 1879 . |
| 12 | He began using heroin at the age of 18 and has used it more or less regularly for five years . |
| 13 | She lost her sight following smallpox at the age of eighteen months . |