I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
act your age (= used to tell someone to behave in a more adult way, suitable for someone of their age )
age bracket
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single people in the 40–50 age bracket
age discrimination
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Age discrimination disadvantages older workers.
age discrimination
age group
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a book for children in the 12–14 age group
age limit
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The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25.
age of consent
age range
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young people in the 15–18 age range
ageing population (= with more old people than before )
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Europe’s ageing population
an age gap (= a difference in age between two people )
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Despite the age gap, they became good friends.
an age group
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Older people are being affected by the economic downturn more than other age groups.
an age limit
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The lower age limit for entering the Royal Marines is sixteen.
an age restriction
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Employers can no longer place age restrictions on applicants.
an ageing population (= gradually becoming older on average )
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The rapidly ageing population will put a strain on the country's health care system.
an old age pension
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State old age pensions were introduced in 1908.
approach middle age (= be almost middle-aged )
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a stocky, balding man who was approaching middle age
at the ripe old age of
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She was put in charge at the ripe old age of twenty-nine.
average age
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The age of the candidates ranged from 29 to 49 with an average age of 37.
be under age (= be too young to legally drink, have sex etc )
be well into middle age (= be obviously middle-aged, probably at least 50 )
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Most of the people there were well into middle age.
Bronze Age
coming of age
Dark Ages
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Ed is stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to his attitudes towards women.
die aged 35/50 etc
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Her father died aged 84.
early middle age (= around age 40 )
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Two women in early middle age sat next to him.
golden age
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the golden age of radio
Ice Age
impressionable age
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The kids are at an impressionable age .
improve with age (= get better as they get older )
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Many wines improve with age .
in the ... age bracket
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single people in the 40–50 age bracket
in the ... age group
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a book for children in the 12–14 age group
in the ... age range
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young people in the 15–18 age range
Iron Age
late middle age (= around age 60 )
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a well-dressed man in late middle age
live to a ripe old age
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Eat less and exercise more if you want to live to a ripe old age .
live to (be) 80/90 etc/live to the age of 80/90 etc
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My grandmother lived to 85.
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She lived to the age of 79.
mature for...age
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Laura is very mature for her age .
mental age
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a 25-year-old man with a mental age of seven
Middle Ages
New Age traveller
New Age
New Age
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the New Age movement
old age pension
old age pensioner
old age
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You need to start putting money away for your old age.
pension age (= the age when you can get a pension )
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Most men stayed in their jobs until pension age.
pensionable age
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36% of the population were of pensionable age .
range in age/size/price etc
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The shoes range in price from $25 to $100.
reach an age
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The payments will be made until the child reaches college age.
reach middle age (= be middle-aged )
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You need to start saving for retirement before you reach middle age.
retirement age
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Sixty-five was the normal retirement age for men.
school age
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children below school age
statutory age
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She’s below the statutory age for school attendance.
Stone Age
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Stone Age weapons
take (sb) ages/forever informal
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It took me ages to find a present for Dad.
the age of consent (= the age at which someone can legally marry or have sex )
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She was fifteen, under the age of consent, when she became pregnant.
the modern age/era/period (= now, rather than in the past )
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In the modern age, television is the main means of mass communication.
upper age limit
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The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25.
wait ages informal esp BrE (= wait a long time )
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I had to wait ages for a bus.
young for her age
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Val is incredibly young for her age .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
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The average age in the new chamber will be 15 years younger than in the outgoing body, with many fewer clerics.
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That seemed odd in a city where the average age in 1990 was about 32.
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The average age of the senators is just under 70.
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The average age at which women marry rose from 24. 7 in 1975 to 26. 2 in 1994.
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For many staff, whose average age is below 30, the slump is a new experience.
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The average age of entering students was fourteen, and the usual level of preparation was correspondingly low.
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Their average age was about twenty-five.
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The average age of nurses is now over 45.
dark
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No more Tube, no more of your favourite bands on the telly, another dark age as regards the media.
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But now a dark age was about to begin.
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The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years.
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The wood was faded and weather-worn, the thatch still thick but dark with age .
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We must recover that dark age if we wish to understand our archaic fears and to rationalize them.
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The stones of the church are dark with age and the roof has long since gone.
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Different to Lefortovo, back in the dark ages from the second floor of the hospital block at Vladimir.
different
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It was a little different from the age I had given to my employers!
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The research shows that kids are uniquely vulnerable at different ages .
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Although I am 40 and from a different age group, I actually enjoy his company in the dressing room.
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If one is to study the aging process, one would presumably want to examine persons from different age groupings.
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Similarly, increased odds ratios were found for different age strata.
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The worry is different ages and different needs won't mix.
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But as parents, we should 233 smile to ourselves when children of different ages play together.
early
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Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house.
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Beginning at an early age , children need to begin to move tO independence.
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Mentally handicapped children should be given the opportunity of mixing with other children from an early age .
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With the need for international cooperation more urgent than ever, there were still as many frontiers as in any earlier age .
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Did you start painting at an early age ?
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He must have had immense courage because so much was required of him at such an early age .
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I have strong memories of feeling different from a very early age .
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Both Maddy and Patrick were professionally successful at an early age , secure, and surrounded by helpful family.
golden
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In some ways it was a golden age .
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Instead of realizing that neo-realism was a beginning, they assumed it was an end, a golden age .
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A golden age , they said.
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An article by Mitchell about the golden age of criticism.
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He argues that, just as Antwerp's golden age depended on openness, so will its future.
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Others see a new golden age of business and technology that will lift the market to unimagined heights.
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Athens is in the middle of her golden age .
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She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan.
middle
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He also had a disinterested fascination with the records of the middle ages , especially those of the west country.
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Most seemed to be in caustic middle age , faces blank or scowling.
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In middle age he was offered a job with the management of the factory and he took it.
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She was twenty-three and simply too young to comprehend the feelings of middle age - let alone those of a middle-aged Prince.
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But in terms of years of potential life lost, the biggest killer is lung cancer, which usually strikes in middle age .
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For them new chances opened up in late middle age as their children left home.
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For those men and women who live into middle age , pain, disease and poverty are the norm rather than the exception.
minimum
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Loan secured by endowment mortgage, minimum age 20 years.
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Here Congress has offered relatively mild encouragement to the States to enact higher minimum drinking ages than they would otherwise choose.
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The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations, and the minimum age is 15 years.
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The nationwide minimum age of 18 to buy cigarettes and chewing tobacco remains in force.
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Another 21 of the 38 death-penalty states either have a minimum age of 16 or no minimum.
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Notes Minimum age 15 years unless on a Youth Training Scheme.
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More children than before are now acquiring a formal education beyond the minimum school-leaving age .
old
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The percentage of the older age groups who are female has increased since the beginning of this century.
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So it seemed Meurent lived to a ripe old age .
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He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age .
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The force of the principle of yang predominates in youth; that of yin, later, and increasingly in old age .
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Rhythms in old age With increasing age, our daily rhythms begin to change.
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Meat did not have a place in the diet, except in old age .
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In our old age we have found a more or less peaceful form of co-existence.
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Charles Booth argued, probably correctly, that old age pensions would encourage children to take in elderly parents.
pensionable
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The threshold for childless couples under pensionable age was 57 percent above income support levels.
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To qualify for the higher limit, disablement must occur before reaching pensionable age .
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All people of pensionable age have a right, under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1966, to a guaranteed income.
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By the 1890s civil servants had become obliged to retire on reaching pensionable age .
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It applies only to those reaching pensionable age since April 1978 and will not reach full maturity until 1998.
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The number of those over pensionable age will be far higher in the next century than it is today.
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Raising the pensionable age , however, was not enough to meet the Treasury's requirements.
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In 1963 my father died at the age of sixty-one, four years short of his pensionable age.
tender
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Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years.
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At my tender age , I could only look on.
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Alongside me was Sam Ratcliffe who, at the tender age of sixteen, had already had quite a bit of publicity.
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Tennis players start at a more tender age these days.
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He knows how it feels to lose a father at a tender age .
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And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18.
young
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Consequently, he learned to be self-sufficient at a young age .
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It appears that for acute health problems older people are little different, in terms of prevalence, from younger age groups.
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While the city is relatively young , age alone provides insufficient explanation.
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Subjects - Young people below age 25.
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Other justices seemed concerned with the young age of the grade-school children involved.
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If the training starts at a young enough age , when the animal is still a puppy, it all comes naturally.
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They left me in no doubt that spiritually they had evolved much beyond their young ages .
■ NOUN
discrimination
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Arbitrary age discrimination can affect everyone.
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Age discrimination and fears of age discrimination are alive and well in the workplace.
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There is also evidence that the economic effects of age discrimination are harsher in Britain than other comparable countries.
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There is lots of age discrimination in the world of jobs.
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In fact, considerable evidence is available which shows that older works face age discrimination in the labour market.
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So how did Mrs Price win her case when she was alleging age discrimination .
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The city dropped the age limitation just before a law enforcement exemption to federal age discrimination laws expired in 1993.
group
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The grade differences in sickness absence were present in all age groups .
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We now know the suicides were evenly male and female and from all age groups .
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These trends for a reduction in length of stay are not unique to the older age groups .
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I was telling my own age group about something worthwhile: bird life and conservation.
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In 1981 there were marked differences in the marital status of men and women in the older age groups .
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Population data For the calculation of incidences we needed population estimates for five year age groups for each of the years 1963-90.
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Fitted bedroom furniture is particularly popular around the 35 years of age group .
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Changes in mortality have influenced the marital status composition of the older age groups in Britain over the last century.
ice
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Over the last 1.5 million years, our planet has been in the grip of an ice age .
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At that time, an ice age was ending, game animals were flourishing, and humans were relatively few.
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It is not hard to see how these two phenomena might, as it were, assist an ice age on its way.
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An ice age begins slowly, almost imperceptibly, when the average temperature drops by a few degrees.
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But ice ages or no, millions of years of erosion will slowly flatten the planetary mineral heaps we call mountains.
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Only after the last ice age did modern civilization, such as it is, evolve.
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I am actually a mammoth, said Jay, only I survived all your ice ages .
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Some are warm and hospitable, while others can be nothing short of an ice age .
limit
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At the moment we have under-17s, under-19s and then no age limit .
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And so can the age limits .
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Val was thirty-eight, and was glad that there was no age limit on the entry for the course.
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The previous age limits had stood at 35 for men and 30 for women.
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And as time goes by, your staff will likely decrease, for the age limits of call-up will rise.
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So let's bring in an under-21 age limit and not discard our youngsters too early.
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Job-seekers over those age limits suddenly found they had no hope of getting a civil service job.
pension
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Partly as a result of all these changes, the government has announced its intention to equalise the State pension age .
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Successive governments, however, have made it clear that any alteration of the state pension ages is unlikely.
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Initially the flow out of the labour force and into retirement was concentrated among men within three years of pension age .
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Across occupations, pension ages vary arbitrarily and do not show any systematic relationship to individual skills or preferences.
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The consequences of an inflexible retirement age fell particularly hard on women as they have a lower pension age.
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In 1987, 2.2 million people over pension age are estimated to have had incomes below the level of Income Support.
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For example, 20 percent of disabled people over pension age say household cleaning is a particular problem.
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The government is to review the state pension age , but there is no one solution that is obviously favoured.
range
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The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.
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Internally the school is organized into separate departments, primary and secondary, which between them cover the entire school age range .
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She complained to an industrial tribunal alleging discrimination on the basis of the age range specified and she was successful.
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The age range is usually 15-44 years, and the woman may have suffered a recent miscarriage or discovered she is infertile.
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It contains a number of detailed examples of such work throughout the primary age range .
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Defining rigorously what constitutes a clinically significant depressive illness is problematic, regardless of the age range under consideration.
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He caters for the full ability and age range .
retirement
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In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on.
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Both also were of retirement age .
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Superintendent Warleigh was not far off retirement age .
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After twenty years, he reached retirement age , left his job, and began spending every moment on the case.
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The deal struck has been to raise the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 65, starting early in the next century.
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The 57-year old executive had said he would resign before the usual retirement age of 60.
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We were in an impossible situation; whatever retirement age was chosen, some one would be upset.
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But on Tuesday, Kelleher will turn 65, retirement age for most people.
school
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The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.
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Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement.
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Children of primary school age seem to make only limited use of Creole.
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Most of these constant offenders started down the path of crime while still of school age .
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A member from the panel of parents of school age will be required to attend each of the meetings.
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Approximately 20 percent of elementary school age children were attending 2,000 ordinary schools by 1933.
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We must also seize the opportunity presented by the considerable increase in numbers of children, particularly those of school age .
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Fortunately, too, he had at least one dauntless and resourceful boy of school age to assist.
■ VERB
die
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Simms was married, with a son and four daughters, all of whom died before the age of ten.
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Battles over the monetary and literary estate of the Fresno author began as soon as he died of cancer at age 72.
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He died at the age of 69 of an unrelated squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus.
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The third plaintiff, Angie Della Vecchia, died last year at age 53.
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In many Third World countries as many as three out of five children die before the age of five.
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John-Francis worked intensely with the neglected until, suffering from exhaustion, he died at the age of thirty-three.
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They had two sons, the elder of whom died at the age of nineteen, and two daughters.
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He died in 1891 at age fifty-three.
live
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Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain.
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She was born there, she lived there until age 21, and she has made nine documentary films about the country.
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She wanted to live with the foster parents she lived with at the age of two.
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We live in an age of niche markets, in which customers have become accustomed to high quality and extensive choice.
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One important reason for optimism is that we now live in a disinflationary age .
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We live in an age of possibility.
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Surely, a full life even for some one who lived to the advance age of 92.
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You lived to an old age , people trusted you, but you had no children and no spouse.
reach
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To qualify for the higher limit, disablement must occur before reaching pensionable age .
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Originally they remained priestesses for only five years: that is, until they reached marriageable age .
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Retirement relief could not be claimed on disposals before 6 April 1985 unless the individual concerned had reached the age of 60.
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The Crown Prince had reached early middle age without marrying.
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Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16?
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I hate the way old actresses are literally thrown out to sea when they reach a certain age .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) New Age
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A publishing company named Lucifer was established in 1922, which distributed the writings to an increasing network of New Age groups.
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I mean, you've heard all his New Age stuff about them being soul mates destined for each other.
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Johanna likes a lot of New Age music, for instance.
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Standard high-tech stuff like ultrasound imaging and the latest hypertension drugs are available along with various New Age prescriptions.
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That anecdote, told in Beatrice Hastings' New Age column, seems true to life.
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This indicated to her that she was being associated with occult and New Age practitioners, since becoming a registered Aromatherapist.
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Yet she is also known for her New Age spiritual writings and teachings about past lives, a higher self and reincarnation.
advanced age/years
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As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years, inclined to be a little vague.
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At the advanced age of 71, Charles Bronson's wizened features are returning to the big screen.
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Male speaker Inevitably at her advanced years, it's difficult for her to overcome.
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On my advanced age, I dote.
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She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
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Towards the rector he was a polite listener, a concession to the man's advanced years and his calling.
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When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty.
advancing years/age
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Chances of developing cancer increase with advancing age.
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At your age, advancing years and all that.
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Joshua hoped that Malone had learnt wisdom with his advancing years.
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Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
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On her deathbed Mary Leapor reportedly expressed concern for her father's advancing age.
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Reasons put forth include his advancing age, the cumulative effect of thousands of hits and the decline of his offensive line.
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The association between advancing years and increasing rates of disability is illustrated in Figure 7.
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The risk of incapacitation increases with advancing years, and increases more rapidly after the age of 55.
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There are clear associations between advancing years and increasing disability, and this is particularly steep among the most elderly.
aged 5/25 etc
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Darren, aged 5 years, had been found deliberately passing urine in the corner of his bedroom carpet.
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In 1990, 8799 children mainly aged 5 to 11 years were eligible for the study.
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It overwhelmingly favours people aged 25 to 35.
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Mark, aged 5 years, showed a variety of behaviour problems at home.
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More than half of working women are aged 25 to 44; more than seven in 10 are in the labor force.
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The dead man, aged 25 to 30, was not named.
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They also show absolute declines in the number of working men aged 25 to 44.
at/from an early age
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Both Maddy and Patrick were professionally successful at an early age, secure, and surrounded by helpful family.
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But what about alteration of brain chemistry at an early age?
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Did you start painting at an early age?
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I worry about cholesterol, because my father died of a heart attack at an early age.
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If you get to know about these things at an early age you lose your shame and shyness.
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Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R-101, obviously an enthusiast from an early age.
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Spong does not advocate marriage at an early age.
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Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house.
bygone age/era/days etc
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Bundles of papers and piles of books guarded secrets from a bygone age.
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He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older, bygone age.
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In bygone days the Arms Park had an almost mystical quality for them.
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In bygone days, both railroad and stagecoach deposited visitors in nearby Point Reyes Station.
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Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
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One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse, it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast's history.
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Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
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They appear now to be products of a bygone age.
childbearing age/years
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Four hundred million women of childbearing age weigh less than 45 kilograms-their malnutrition is passed on to their infants.
chronological age
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Carrow also suggests that, for children scoring below their chronological age equivalent, the separate subtests can provide useful qualitative information.
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If so, chronological age might influence treatment policy.
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Test scores can be compared directly with the scores obtained by normal children of the same chronological age.
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The same ranging of, or variability in, Piagetian developmental levels is found at any chronological age group.
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There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own.
come of age
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Britain's adopted children had come of age.
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Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age?
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Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.
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His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
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However, you will come of age in two months.
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It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.
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Morris came of age in the 1850s.
feel your age
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You really start to feel you age when you spend time around these kids.
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By not feeling my age and by having energy and vigour.
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However, she was beginning to feel her age and could not face an argument until it was unavoidable.
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Make me feel my age, tell you the truth!
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Other times you don't feel your age at all.
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The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age.
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Treat your skin to Empathy and it will never feel its age.
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Unfortunately, this is just at the time when a woman is starting to feel her age, so is especially vulnerable.
grand (old) age
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But even at the grand old age of 28, he was keen to give it a go.
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In 1989 the Society reached the grand old age of 100 years.
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The house, despite its grand old age, is welcoming and comfortable.
income/tax/age etc bracket
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Dataquest said only 12 percent in this income bracket owned computers.
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In addition they estimated the implied income tax brackets associated with each dividend payout level.
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It's all to do with the £19,250 tax bracket and engines below 2 litres.
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Jack Kemp would have to recommend that tax brackets be compressed to as low as 10 percent to dull their allure.
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Name the ethnicity, tax bracket or wardrobe, and they were there in full force.
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The key is, does your tax bracket justify buying munis?
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Together, that amounts to an annual tax saving of up to £1,000, compared to cars in a higher tax bracket .
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Why should you and I be in the same tax bracket as Steve Forbes?
months/weeks/ages yet
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But it could be several weeks yet before these children know the fate of their school.
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I know it will not be for some months yet , but time passes quickly.
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Indeed, it may beaver for many months yet .
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It was to last for some months yet .
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It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals.
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Sometimes they took little dancing steps, as their blood responded to rhythms that their descendants would not create for ages yet .
ripe old age
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Angie was the orchestra's soloist at the ripe old age of 22.
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Da Ponte lived to the ripe old age of 89.
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At the ripe old age of 28 he says he can no longer bear the rigours of the game.
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Ex-wife Alana demonstrates that she's still out in front in the glamour stakes at the ripe old age of 43.
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Inpart this reflects increasing expenditure on state pensions as more and more people live to a ripe old age.
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It was not until they levelled out that she thought again about the possibility of living to a ripe old age.
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Or I could make serious, long-term changes and hope to live to a ripe old age.
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So it seemed Meurent lived to a ripe old age.
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There's no escape from that if you want to live to a ripe old age.
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Tom had not reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine without discovering quite a few of them.
tender age
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Alongside me was Sam Ratcliffe who, at the tender age of sixteen, had already had quite a bit of publicity.
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And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18.
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At my tender age, I could only look on.
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Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years.
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He knows how it feels to lose a father at a tender age.
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Tennis players start at a more tender age these days.
the Bronze Age
the Dark Ages
the Iron Age
the Middle Ages
the Stone Age
the age of consent
the aged
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anyone over the age of fourteen has to pay the full fare.
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Dewhurst died at the age of seventy-three.
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Experts have given different estimates of the age of the painting.
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Francis is the same age as I am.
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I'm surprised someone of your age didn't know that.
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I tried to guess her age but couldn't.
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In this age of the Internet, finding a job can be much easier.
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Jimmy's very tall for his age .
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Many consider the '30s and '40s to be the golden age of Hollywood movies.
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Newton lived in an age of exploration and discovery.
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She's in her seventies, but very fit for her age .
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The amount you pay for license tags and registration depends on the age of the vehicle.
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the architecture of the industrial age
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The average age of the students here is eighteen.
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the Ice Age
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The newspapers were brown with age .
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Their children's ages range from twelve to seventeen.
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These simple tools were used for hunting in the Stone Age .
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What's the minimum age for getting a driver's license?
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When I was your age I was already working.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But research suggests there are now 17,000 people under the age of 65 with Alzheimer's in Britain.
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For example, under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, age may be taken into account in certain circumstances.
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I am actually a mammoth, said Jay, only I survived all your ice ages.
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In many respects Bush is the most spun and spinning politician of the age .
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Nella was thirty-two, an age by which if a blonde woman's hair hasn't turned dark, it never will.
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One is 7, and one is my age .
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The television age has transformed the conventions into presentational exercises from which the unknown and unexpected are ruthlessly excised.
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This was far longer than the age of the earth as calculated by the creationists.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) New Age
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A publishing company named Lucifer was established in 1922, which distributed the writings to an increasing network of New Age groups.
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I mean, you've heard all his New Age stuff about them being soul mates destined for each other.
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Johanna likes a lot of New Age music, for instance.
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Standard high-tech stuff like ultrasound imaging and the latest hypertension drugs are available along with various New Age prescriptions.
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That anecdote, told in Beatrice Hastings' New Age column, seems true to life.
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This indicated to her that she was being associated with occult and New Age practitioners, since becoming a registered Aromatherapist.
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Yet she is also known for her New Age spiritual writings and teachings about past lives, a higher self and reincarnation.
advanced age/years
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As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years, inclined to be a little vague.
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At the advanced age of 71, Charles Bronson's wizened features are returning to the big screen.
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Male speaker Inevitably at her advanced years, it's difficult for her to overcome.
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On my advanced age, I dote.
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She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
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Towards the rector he was a polite listener, a concession to the man's advanced years and his calling.
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When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty.
advancing years/age
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Chances of developing cancer increase with advancing age.
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At your age, advancing years and all that.
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Joshua hoped that Malone had learnt wisdom with his advancing years.
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Of course, I was only displaying the ultimately cliched boomer trait, a tortured denial of my own advancing years.
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On her deathbed Mary Leapor reportedly expressed concern for her father's advancing age.
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Reasons put forth include his advancing age, the cumulative effect of thousands of hits and the decline of his offensive line.
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The association between advancing years and increasing rates of disability is illustrated in Figure 7.
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The risk of incapacitation increases with advancing years, and increases more rapidly after the age of 55.
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There are clear associations between advancing years and increasing disability, and this is particularly steep among the most elderly.
aged 5/25 etc
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Darren, aged 5 years, had been found deliberately passing urine in the corner of his bedroom carpet.
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In 1990, 8799 children mainly aged 5 to 11 years were eligible for the study.
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It overwhelmingly favours people aged 25 to 35.
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Mark, aged 5 years, showed a variety of behaviour problems at home.
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More than half of working women are aged 25 to 44; more than seven in 10 are in the labor force.
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The dead man, aged 25 to 30, was not named.
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They also show absolute declines in the number of working men aged 25 to 44.
at/from an early age
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Both Maddy and Patrick were professionally successful at an early age, secure, and surrounded by helpful family.
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But what about alteration of brain chemistry at an early age?
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Did you start painting at an early age?
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I worry about cholesterol, because my father died of a heart attack at an early age.
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If you get to know about these things at an early age you lose your shame and shyness.
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Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R-101, obviously an enthusiast from an early age.
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Spong does not advocate marriage at an early age.
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Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house.
bygone age/era/days etc
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Bundles of papers and piles of books guarded secrets from a bygone age.
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He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older, bygone age.
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In bygone days the Arms Park had an almost mystical quality for them.
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In bygone days, both railroad and stagecoach deposited visitors in nearby Point Reyes Station.
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Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
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One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse, it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast's history.
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Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
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They appear now to be products of a bygone age.
childbearing age/years
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Four hundred million women of childbearing age weigh less than 45 kilograms-their malnutrition is passed on to their infants.
chronological age
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Carrow also suggests that, for children scoring below their chronological age equivalent, the separate subtests can provide useful qualitative information.
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If so, chronological age might influence treatment policy.
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Test scores can be compared directly with the scores obtained by normal children of the same chronological age.
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The same ranging of, or variability in, Piagetian developmental levels is found at any chronological age group.
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There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own.
grand (old) age
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But even at the grand old age of 28, he was keen to give it a go.
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In 1989 the Society reached the grand old age of 100 years.
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The house, despite its grand old age, is welcoming and comfortable.
income/tax/age etc bracket
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Dataquest said only 12 percent in this income bracket owned computers.
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In addition they estimated the implied income tax brackets associated with each dividend payout level.
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It's all to do with the £19,250 tax bracket and engines below 2 litres.
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Jack Kemp would have to recommend that tax brackets be compressed to as low as 10 percent to dull their allure.
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Name the ethnicity, tax bracket or wardrobe, and they were there in full force.
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The key is, does your tax bracket justify buying munis?
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Together, that amounts to an annual tax saving of up to £1,000, compared to cars in a higher tax bracket .
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Why should you and I be in the same tax bracket as Steve Forbes?
months/weeks/ages yet
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But it could be several weeks yet before these children know the fate of their school.
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I know it will not be for some months yet , but time passes quickly.
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Indeed, it may beaver for many months yet .
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It was to last for some months yet .
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It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals.
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Sometimes they took little dancing steps, as their blood responded to rhythms that their descendants would not create for ages yet .
ripe old age
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Angie was the orchestra's soloist at the ripe old age of 22.
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Da Ponte lived to the ripe old age of 89.
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At the ripe old age of 28 he says he can no longer bear the rigours of the game.
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Ex-wife Alana demonstrates that she's still out in front in the glamour stakes at the ripe old age of 43.
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Inpart this reflects increasing expenditure on state pensions as more and more people live to a ripe old age.
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It was not until they levelled out that she thought again about the possibility of living to a ripe old age.
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Or I could make serious, long-term changes and hope to live to a ripe old age.
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So it seemed Meurent lived to a ripe old age.
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There's no escape from that if you want to live to a ripe old age.
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Tom had not reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine without discovering quite a few of them.
tender age
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Alongside me was Sam Ratcliffe who, at the tender age of sixteen, had already had quite a bit of publicity.
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And it has just happened to Kate Moss at the tender age of 18.
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At my tender age, I could only look on.
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Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years.
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He knows how it feels to lose a father at a tender age.
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Tennis players start at a more tender age these days.
the Bronze Age
the Dark Ages
the Iron Age
the Middle Ages
the Stone Age
the age of consent
the aged
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After his wife's death, Wilfred seemed to age quickly.
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I couldn't believe how much she had aged.
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She noticed for the first time how Frederick had aged.
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The scotch is aged for ten years in oak barrels.
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Western men tend to age more quickly than Japanese men.