Example sentences of "children [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 Yet each woman could , theoretically , have given birth to as many as 15 children spaced two years apart or 30 spaced a year apart .
2 The DTI has been criticised for underestimating the number of children injured each year by fireworks .
3 Nearly 1,000 children die each year from accidents in the home which are avoidable and every single child will encounter some kind of accident before the age of fifteen .
4 A total of children attended this year 's scheme .
5 ii The National Study of Health and Growth ( NSHG ) , a surveillance study including , each year , around 9000 children aged 5–11 years , has previously reported results relating to two effects of passive smoking in children : firstly , a possible negative relation between children 's height and the reported number of cigarettes smoked by parents in the home , and secondly , a dose-response relation between prevalence of respiratory symptoms and parental smoking .
6 To determine whether birth weight and gestational age are associated with respiratory illness and lung function in children aged 5–11 years .
7 The legal definition of primary education covers children aged 5–11 years in England , Wales and Northern Ireland , and 5–12 years in Scotland .
8 Death rates of toddlers and children aged 2–3 years whose mothers had moved from urban to rural areas were lower than of children born to non-migrant urban mothers in all but eight and four countries , respectively .
9 Fiji reported a reverse pattern for all but infants and , in Guyana , better education was associated with lower mortality among children aged 2–3 years , but not among younger children .
10 No strong pattern emerged in the effect of mothers ' place of occupation upon the mortality of toddlers and of children aged 2–3 years .
11 For the analyses of childhood cancers including leukaemias — that is , those diagnosed in children aged 0–14 years — data were obtained from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours at the Childhood Cancer Research Group .
12 The analyses for people aged 15–24 were based mainly on data from the Northern Region Children 's Malignant Disease Registry , which originally covered only children aged 0–14 years but was extended , as a result of the recommendations of the Black Advisory Group , to people aged 15–24 .
13 Table IV shows the numbers of cases of cancer together with the age standardised rates in children aged 0–14 years for each diagnostic group in the three study areas during 1963–83 and 1984–90 .
14 The present report covers the periods 1963–90 for children aged 0–14 years , 1969–90 for people aged 15–24 , and 1984–90 for leukaemia and lymphomas in adults .
15 Thus there is no evidence over the period from 1963 onwards that the excess found in Seascale extends to a wider area around Sellafield , though for the most recent period there was a slight increase in the incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the rest of Cumbria , particularly among children aged 0–4 years .
16 Case-control study of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma among children aged 0–4 years living in West Berkshire and North Hampshire health districts
17 54 children aged 0–4 years who had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed during 1972–89 , who were born in the study area and were resident there when cancer was diagnosed .
18 This study was set up to investigate whether the raised incidence of leukaemia in children aged 0–4 years in the West Berkshire and North Hampshire health districts , which was 60% above the national average in 1972–85 , was related to parental employment in the nuclear industry .
19 Programmes include : political campaigns and social action to develop play facilities for children aged 4–14 years ; a drop-in facility for anyone in the local neighbourhood ; a ‘ family friends ’ group ; a ‘ kidscape ’ project ; parents ' groups ; use of volunteers ; a home-school liaison project ; a scrap project providing employment and resources to the local community ; a health initiative .
20 In the WFS surveys , it relates to the age group 0–4 years , and may be divided into the mortality of children under one year ) see infant mortality ) , of one year old children ( sometimes called toddler mortality ) and of children aged 2–4 years ( child mortality in a narrow sense ) .
21 — for children aged 5–7 years .
22 MORE than 40 Powys children aged 9–13 years attended a circus skills workshop at Knighton organised by the Powys Health Promotion Unit .
23 Special Reductions for Children aged 2–16 years inclusive
24 All children must be aged 2–11 years inclusive on the day of departure ( unless taking advantage of the special offers for children aged 2–16 years inclusive shown on this page ) .
25 HCI offers discounts for all children aged 2–11 years inclusive at the time of travel .
26 Our experience at the Royal National Throat , Nose , and Ear Hospital over the past two years in a study of over 200 children aged 3–8 years with chronic ( more than six months ) or recurrent ( more than three episodes ) glue ear is that a high proportion ( over 80% ) have allergic rhinitis and that treatment of this is associated with resolution of the secretory otitis media in most cases .
27 It proudly boasted that it was the Jack-in-the-Box Private Kindergarten , for children aged 2–5 years .
28 During the whole anniversary season , buy a Family Ticket ( 2 adults and 2 children aged 5–16 years ) and spend a whole day exploring the Railway for only £19 !
29 Children aged 5–16 years will be given a 50% reduction on the adult price if sharing a room with an adult .
30 228 children aged 2–9 years with pronounced hearing loss from glue ear and persistent bilateral middle ear effusions confirmed on three occasions over three months .
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