Example sentences of "in their [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know girls in their twenties who do , so I realise how fortunate I am . |
| 2 | So if recognition is important to a person in their twenties it is likely to continue to motivate throughout their career . |
| 3 | Studies of men in their 60s whose birth records were still available showed that low birth weight and low weight at 12 months were associated with glucose intolerance later in life . |
| 4 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 5 | A number of undergraduates were men in their mid-twenties who had served in the war and whose university education had therefore been deferred . |
| 6 | People in their sixties who are on their own are also beginning to move into such accommodation , giving a good mix of younger , able-bodied and older residents . |
| 7 | This is a very important benefit , especially for the many single women in their fifties who are sacrificing their career to look after an elderly parent . |
| 8 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 9 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 10 | I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on . |
| 11 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 12 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 13 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 14 | Oxford United 's manager , Brian Horton , watched his side put on another disappointing display in their three nil defeat at Barnsley . |
| 15 | Many women develop the ability to have multiple orgasms in their 30s which , not so coincidentally , is when our sex drive is at its peak . |
| 16 | An increasing number of women , perhaps career women in their 30s who have been regular Pill users for several years , may wish to check if they are ovulating before planning the timing of a pregnancy . |
| 17 | As we have discussed , the survivors need to feel involved in their loved one 's dying process as much as possible . |
| 18 | However , for patients in their forties it is usually a simple matter to establish them on similar insulin regimens to the Type I patients . |
| 19 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 20 | You get usually women in their eighties who talk about their mothers as though they 're still there , or cry terrible tears of sadness at having lost their mothers . |