Example sentences of "in [noun pl] under [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 The number of items prescribed differed across the age bands ( table I ) with a small peak in patients under 5 years old and rising rapidly from the 5–16 to 75–84 age groups .
2 The message from all three units is similar — hospital mortality from the first variceal bleed is not significantly greater in the elderly than in patients under 65 years .
3 Hence the report from the Mayo clinic that after mucosal proctectomy with a pelvic J reservoir and endoanal , pouchanal anastomosis , bowel frequency in patients over 50 years was 11 in 24 hours , compared with seven in patients under 50 years .
4 Half of the cases ( 32/ 64 ) occurred in children under two years of age and 20 ( 63% ) of these had chronic diarrhoea compared with only 38% ( 12/32 ) of children aged greater than two years ( p<0.05 ) .
5 The excess was concentrated in children under 5 years who were living within 10 km of the atomic weapons establishments at Aldermaston and Burghfield .
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