Example sentences of "[vb pp] the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked older than Estabrook would have expected , given the age of his children . |
| 2 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |
| 3 | The last few years have seen the age of the fitness fanatics — those who rush headlong to join in the latest craze whether it is jogging , aerobics or weight training . |
| 4 | Yes well from as many boys that had seen the age , they had to go . |
| 5 | Have n't got the age or the inclination . |
| 6 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 7 | Within that wider development , the credibility of Christian faith itself first came to be seriously challenged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries — in what is commonly called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment . |
| 8 | The volumes of the still popular Pelican Guide to English Literature which refer to the Renaissance are called The Age of Shakespeare and From Donne to Marvell , for example . |
| 9 | to clobber in Black Heath village I notice it did n't say that the premises are now called the age centre . |
| 10 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 11 | In human terms , he 'd reached the age of about 30 — a critical time for self-reflection , I remember ! |
| 12 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 13 | At least 4 out of 16 ( 25 per cent ) of the adolescents had reached the age of sixteen or more without receiving any information from adults about sexually transmitted diseases and contraception . |
| 14 | The most recent data found that only 4 ½%; of ethnic minorities had reached the age of 60 ( Social Trends 21 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Providing you have reached the age of majority and can show that the monthly repayments are within your means , you can apply with confidence . |
| 16 | you have reached the age of 65 ( whether you are a man or woman ) . |
| 17 | Seius Saturninus , a chief helmsman of the British fleet , left in his will Captain Valerius Maximus as his trustee-heir , and requested of him that he should make over his [ Seius ' ] estate to his son , Seius Oceanus , when he had reached the age of sixteen . |
| 18 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 19 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 20 | The Education Committee evaluated Village school for possible closure because the teacher had reached the age of retirement . |
| 21 | But what of the expectation of life of someone who has reached the age of forty ? |
| 22 | His main point , which his immediate audience would not fail to grasp , was that the ‘ little child ’ had not yet reached the age of the ‘ bar Mitzvah ’ ceremony , or ‘ coming-of-age ’ , which within the Jewish culture meant that the ‘ little child ’ had no rights before the Law of God . |
| 23 | course in Education at Southampton University while waiting for the divorce to come through , but while I like Oman , I do not feel ‘ stretched ’ in this post and also ( now I have reached the age of fifty ) miss being in England with children and family . |
| 24 | Retirement relief could not be claimed on disposals before 6 April 1985 unless the individual concerned had reached the age of 60 . |
| 25 | ‘ Having reached the age of 50 a month ago , Britt was quite content to leave California and settle down somewhere less extravagant but Jim loves Los Angeles and does n't intend to leave the city . ’ |
| 26 | It occurred to him that he had reached the age when a man looks forward to his pleasures less keenly than in youth but is disproportionately aggrieved when his plans are upset . |
| 27 | Dismissal or even voluntary separation from a large company once a worker has reached the age of 30 is unlikely to result in recruitment to a similar position in another large firm . |
| 28 | By the time he has reached the age of 17 or 18 , however , a new decision has to be made . |
| 29 | He had reached the age when friends and companions were beginning to die around him , and in the spring of this year he composed memorial addresses for two of them : William Collin Brooks , who ten years before had encouraged Valerie Fletcher to apply for the post of Eliot 's secretary , and Father Eric Cheetham , who had " taken in " Eliot after the separation from Vivien . |
| 30 | He called for new legislation to allow him to appoint a new justice in addition to each one who had reached the age of 70 ( up to a limit of six new justices ) . |