Example sentences of "an age [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 2 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 3 | In 1894 Gertrude Tuckwell ( Secretary and later President of the Women 's Trade Union League ) advocated ‘ the gradual extension of labour protection to the point where mothers will be prohibited from working until their children have reached an age at which they can care for themselves ’ , and the Women 's Labour League agreed that mothers with children under five should not be employed . |
| 4 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 5 | if that 's an age at which you have conspicuously failed |
| 6 | Before we reached an age at which it was considered improper , the three of us used to sleep in one big bed and keep each other awake most of the night , giggling and speculating on the mysteries and wonders of Christmas morning . |
| 7 | In an age in which we have a keen sense for the difference between fact and symbol , Wilson-Kastner makes no distinction . |