Example sentences of "of the same age [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale . |
| 2 | Even people of the same age and sex can differ considerably in the energy they burn up to keep their bodies going . |
| 3 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 4 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 5 | Is it not obviously appropriate , the traditionalists argue , to introduce children of the same age and ability level to new subject areas at the same time ? |
| 6 | Yes , people of the same age and build may have a difference in metabolic rate of up to one-third . |
| 7 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , there is even worse to come , for on the other side of the Atlantic in Texas , we find the Austin Chalk of the same age and character , and later Cretaceous chalks ( still contemporaneous with the European development ) are found in Arkansas , Mississippi and Alabama . |
| 9 | Five pots of plants of the same age and grown under identical conditions were measured in turn over periods of fifteen to thirty minutes . |
| 10 | The condition is , however , almost unknown among healthy men of the same age as those in the survey . |
| 11 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | But in time term " , these limestones are very much of the same age as those in Europe and , as I have said elsewhere , " the Niagara Falls are nothing more than the Niagara River falling over an escarpment of Wenlock Limestone " . |
| 13 | When you have a child of the same age as Jonathan , it really hits home . ’ |
| 14 | Work something out , its rather extraordinary happens to people of the same age as me |
| 15 | There is a sense — the most important of all — in which Homer and Dante and Milton , Aeschylus and Shakespeare are all of the same age or none . |