Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at all those ex-players who have n't managed to find security after the age of 35 . |
| 2 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 3 | A following based upon the prospect of future advancement and the ability to secure employment for new candidates for office was always much easier for politicians who , like David Scott , were favoured by Administration , for there were so many ways in which Government could afford to help politicians without the age barriers which limited the free employment of Indian patronage . |
| 4 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 5 | AUSTRALIA 'S world No 4 Chris Robertson , who played in the British Open final at Wembley in April , has been forced to quit squash at the age of 27 with an arthritic hip . |
| 6 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 7 | The CIA award scheme aims to commend people under the age of 26 who excel at their profession in the industry . |
| 8 | Mehetabel , or ‘ Hetty ’ as she was generally known , received the same education as her brothers , and is said to have been able to read Greek at the age of eight . |
| 9 | The TPLF allowed women to share land from the age of fifteen , and to take part in elections . |
| 10 | Sometimes he had to take ‘ no ’ for an answer ; Jon Vickers declined to sing Tristan at the age of 30 , though he would later sing Tristan for Karajan in Salzburg in 1972 . |
| 11 | The course has been designed for students who wish to become teachers in primary schools ( that is , to teach children in the age range 4/5–11 years ) . |
| 12 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 13 | In the post-war decades , the majority of women had married and subsequently left paid work to have children by the age of 30 ( see Rimmer , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |
| 15 | pupils are able and mature enough to make choices at the age of 13/14 ; |
| 16 | I then began to enter competitions at the age of seven , riding a Yamaha fifty with a five-speed gearbox . |