Example sentences of "at the age of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rough-hewn psychological explanation would hold that , because many second generation Caribbeans and Africans in the UK are raised in single-parent families , in almost every case the parent being the mother , the children pass into an emotional void at the ages of 13 or 14 and seek out father figures in the shape of sports coaches with whom they form compensatory attachments . |
| 2 | Primary education covers infant schooling from the ages of 5–7 or 8 , then junior schooling concluding at the ages of 10 or 11 . |
| 3 | Patients 101 and 102 died at the ages of 72 and 70 years with no known features of FAP and no cancer . |
| 4 | The best known ( to sociologists ) of the surveys conducted with this sample was published as The Home and the School , by J.W.B. Douglas , in 1964 ; 4 , 195 of the children were found still to be living in England and Wales , and 3,418 of these ( 81.5 per cent ) were tested for various aspects of intelligence at the ages of eight and eleven . |
| 5 | 1.6 The assessment framework adopted by the Government requires that : ( a ) attainment targets are set for the knowledge , skills , and understanding normally expected at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 ; ( b ) pupils ' performances in relation to attainment targets should be assessed and reported on at ages 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 6 | attainment targets are set for the knowledge , skills and understanding normally expected at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 ; |
| 7 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
| 8 | Four key stages in a child 's education are defined , ending at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 9 | The Report also recommends the ranges of levels of attainment which should apply to pupils at the end of each of key stages 2 , 3 and 4 — ie at the ages of 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 10 | At the ages of 11 and 16 , teachers , parents and the young people themselves reported on whether they had truanted . |
| 11 | There have been a number of subsample surveys including surveys of twins , small-for-dates and post mature babies and a ten percent random sample of legitimate births , at the ages of 22 months and three and a half years . |
| 12 | We do not as yet have full details of the standard assessment tasks which will be used at the ages of seven and eleven and subsequently ; if they do not provide a means of screening for learning difficulty , and identifying the nature of the difficulty , a significant opportunity will have been missed . |
| 13 | The same topics were addressed in a White Paper in 1985 , and these issues became a major concern of the Education Reform Act which introduced a national curriculum backed up by standardised tests at the ages of seven , eleven , fourteen and sixteen . |
| 14 | We will ensure that all children have their memories for each of the foundation subjects tested at the ages of seven , 11 , 13 and 16 . |
| 15 | Data from the original birth study and from follow-ups at the ages of seven , eleven and sixteen have been lodged with the Data Archive and available for secondary analysis for some time . |
| 16 | With a shock it was brought home to Annie Oaks that they were the only family Lydia and Tobias had ever known , coming to Aumery Park Farm from the Union House as they had done at the ages of ten and twelve . |
| 17 | Now at the ages of 15 , 16 and 18 we speak to a lot more people , we know the staff a lot better and we take part in things such as karaoke and adult games etc , we do not go to the amusements and swim much now that we are older . |
| 18 | At the ages of twenty to twenty-nine only 35 per cent were . |
| 19 | We regret to announce the death of Mabel Adams FHCIMA who died recently at the age of 92 . |
| 20 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 21 | The comedian , Les Dawson , has died at the age of fifty-eight . |
| 22 | At the age of 47 , Robert De Niro is coming out of a creative crisis and entering a new phase as a movie mogul . |
| 23 | At the age of 47 , he has come out of his creative mid-life crisis and knows how to follow his stunning screen work . |
| 24 | Her third marriage at the age of 47 , to a widower with a grown-up family , had again ended , after five years , with her husband 's death . |
| 25 | George Orwell died at the age of 47 , from tobacco-assisted tuberculosis . |
| 26 | Uneasy Landscapes , at the age of 47 , after a successful business career , Eddie Dayan turned to his passion of 25 years and has devoted himself full-time to photography . |
| 27 | Dealer 's service : The funeral takes place at Scarborough 's Woodlands crematorium today of car enthusiast William Lambert , who died in hospital at the age of 47 . |
| 28 | At the end of the war they returned to the Villa dell'Ombrellino where , 11 September 1947 , at the age of seventy-nine , Alice died . |
| 29 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 30 | At the age of 44 , Keith Cardwell is now in his thirteenth year of being a professional photographer . |