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middle-aged spread

Weight that accumulates around a person's midsection due to a decrease in metabolism caused by aging. Barry suddenly started dieting and exercising to prevent the middle-aged spread.

age out

To be too old to remain in an age-based classification or receive age-based services. When you turn 26, you will age out of your parents' health insurance coverage. When these kids turn 10, they'll age out of the after-school program.

age in place

To live in a single appropriately accessible residence as one ages, as opposed to moving to more accessible dwellings as one's mobility decreases. Living in the granny pad on our son's property will allow us to age in place.

age out (of something)

[for an adult] to grow [mentally or in years] out of certain behavior or out of a group or classification that is based on age. (Jargon.) Most of them tend to age out at about 35.

age out

To reach an age at which one is no longer eligible for certain special services, such as education or protection, from an authority: Unfortunately I have aged out of the special student scholarship program, so I have to pay full price for these classes.

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Mark Byers, aged 34, of Ecclestone Road, pounds 120.

Metro fare dodgers are fined pounds 39,000

Ycsi Bibi, aged 19, of Strathmore Crescent, pounds 145.

Fare dodgers get hefty penalties

For each of these causes of death, and for three others (infection, cardiomyopathy and stroke), the mortality ratio was lowest for 25-29-years-olds, intermediate for 35-39-year-olds and highest for women aged 40 or older.

Risk of pregnancy-related death is sharply elevated for women 35 and older

The pattern of variation is nearly identical for the CEB measure and the index computed from the number of own children aged 0-4 living in the household.

'The number and quality of children': education and marital fertility in early-twentieth century Iowa

Tearing energy decreases for specimens aged in all ways: aged in air, aged in fresh power steering fluid, aged in degraded power steering fluid, aged due to impulse testing, and aged due to use on a vehicle.

Predicting the life of automotive power steering hose materials

Julie Moorhead, aged 32, of Nelson Street, pounds 120

Metro dodgers fined pounds 14,995

H-adhesion samples were aged under the following conditions:

The effect of partial substitution of cobalt adhesion promoter by post vulcanization stabilizers on steel cord to rubber adhesion

While this system provides reasonably pure populations of aged cells, researchers variously describe it as "very time consuming," "a brute-force technique" and "a pain in the butt.

Postponing red-cell retirement: can aging blood cells get a new lease on life?

Christopher Oman, aged 24, of St Cuthberts Way, pounds 120

Metro ticket dodgers are fined pounds 23,000

This is especially true for infants born to very young mothers (those aged 15 and younger).

Youngest mothers' infants have greatly elevated risk of dying by age one. (Digests)

Seventeenth-century poetry on the other hand held a more positive view of the aged.

A cracked mirror: images and self-images of elderly men and women in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century

Aged skin is thinner than younger skin, and is characterized by an increase in cellular disorganization, says Lynne T.

Wrestling with wrinkles: scientists are closing in on the secrets of skin aging

First, what was the status of the aged in early New England, especially in relation to the middle-aged?

Age relations and the social order in early New England: the evidence from manners

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