Converse of object

• reach: Lindsey was just reaching the age where she could be trusted in the house on her own.

Adjective modifier

• golden: There never was a golden age of public housing.

• middle: The origins of the town date back to the middle ages.

• average: Given that 50.7 is the average age of the menopause this is the most relevant age to target with limited resources.

• minimum: The minimum age of recruitment to the Armed Forces will be 18 or older.

• early: Most children learn the Green Cross Code at an early age, they just forget to apply it.

• old: Through no fault of mine I am now looking for my 3rd home at the ripe old age of 9 months.

Modifies a noun

• discrimination: Only then can there be quick and fair remedies for victims of age discrimination in health care.

• group: Next year, 16 qualifiers from each age group will be invited to take part in the final.

• limit: Upper age limit - 24 years old on the 31st August.

Noun used with modifier

• retirement: We will all face a hike in the retirement age.

• tender: Even fewer can claim their first screen kiss to have been at the tender age of 11.

• ice: Tuesday 18th October 2005 " The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in.

• childbearing: If risks are identified by the assessment, information about them should be given to all women of childbearing age in the workplace.

• pension: Soon some east European country will set the pension age at 70 to try to compete with its more powerful neighbors.

• voting: Mon 6th Sep 2004: Voting age on the agenda for Labor.

Preposition: of

• fourteen: In other words, just under half of the original sample were retained in the school system to the age of fourteen.

• eleven: His life made a turn for the worst when his parents divorced at the age of eleven.