Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 2 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
| 3 | One especial favourite was David Mitchell who had joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of fifteen . |
| 4 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
| 5 | Tabley House is the 3,000-acre estate near Knutsford , which he inherited in 1770 at the age of eight . |
| 6 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 7 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
| 8 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
| 9 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |
| 10 | However , after training , she set out by boat for India in 1935 at the age of 30 as a pioneer missionary under the auspices of the Ceylon and India General Mission . |
| 11 | ‘ My grandfather died in 1935 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 12 | After a pious and seemingly untroubled Christian upbringing , he was duly confirmed in 1861 at the age of sixteen , but within a year was already casting a cold eye on the case for a " literalistic attitude " towards Christian doctrine and asserting that " the existence of God , immortality , the authority of the Bible , inspiration and other things will always remain problems . |
| 13 | Queen Alexandra died in 1925 at the age of 81 . |
| 14 | They had one daughter , who died of typhoid in 1872 at the age of eight . |
| 15 | His brother Luke , whom Coleridge had come to know and revere in London , had died in 1790 at the age of twenty-five ; Nancy , loved ‘ most tenderly ’ , had succumbed to tuberculosis the following year at only twenty-one . |
| 16 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 17 | They start with his poverty-stricken beginnings in turn-of-the-century Lambeth — all cliched , flat-capped urchins and ‘ wotcha , cock ’ — running straight through to Chaplin 's ambivalent acceptance of a special Oscar in 1972 at the age of 83 . |
| 18 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 19 | Since his death in 1963 at the age of twenty-nine , a suspiciously large number of works has appeared on the market . |
| 20 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 21 | He continued to hunt and race till he was well over 83 , dying in 1826 at the age of 86 . |
| 22 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 23 | Ilija Crijević from Ragusa ( Aelius Lampridius Cervinus ) became a member of the Quirinal Academy in Rome in 1484 at the age of twenty-one years , and was crowned poet laureate for a treatise on Virgil . |
| 24 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 25 | Joe Selwyn joined the Glosters in 1932 at the age of 18 and spent over a decade in the land of the Raj . |
| 26 | This complaint is said to affect one person in three over the age of 60 in the West . |
| 27 | It is said to be present , although usually without symptoms , in one in ten people over the age of forty , and in one in three over the age of sixty . |
| 28 | The King , who had been compelled to abdicate in 1975 at the age of 69 , apparently had died in 1984 of malaria contracted in a detention centre [ for former denial of King 's death see p. 36293 ] . |
| 29 | Although he died in 1940 at the age of 35 , he had in the space of very few years produced a quite prodigious range of political and literary texts . |
| 30 | To have died in 1940 at the age of 35 is to have experienced in different ways the dramatic historical upheavals of the interwar period , and in particular in Nizan 's case , the post-revolutionary development of the Soviet Union and the growth of the French communist party . |