mature age

collocation in English

meaningsofmatureandage

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mature
adjective
uk
/məˈtʃʊər/us
/məˈtʊr/
Mature people behave like adults in a way that shows they are well ...
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age
noun
uk
/eɪdʒ/us
/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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(Definition ofmatureandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Universities need to respond more effectively than many do at present tomatureagelearners.
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Therefore, all animals at the same percentage 'matureage' are also the same age.
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Fifty-six days was considered to bematureageand weight for purposes of transformation.
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He was ofmatureage, sharp understanding, and familiar with the hazards attendant on traveling by a railroad.
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Being in thematureagegroup had a positive marginal effect of 10 per cent on this probability.
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I wish that they were all people ofmatureage, but they are not.
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There will be a demand for men and women of a morematureage.
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She must have no legal incapacity and must he of thematureageof thirty.
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Paragraph 18 might appear to discriminate against those who are of morematureage.
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These letters are obviously written by persons of a morematureage.
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And when he was of a riper and morematureage.
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If there is to be any fighting, let it be done by men ofmatureage.
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This may be a reason that my choice of research topics, in particular inmatureage, has been more influenced by real-world phenomena than by the academic research literature.
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Some of the greatest men of the day have been men who have come tomatureageunder those circumstances.
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It was soon recognised that those who entered the profession at a morematureagewere often better qualified.
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It is no use taking haphazard a lot of men ofmatureageand sending them to college.
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In the morematureagegroup, only just over 30 % of the applicants placed on the reserve lists were women.
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As my noble friend reminds me, it was when he was of a riper and morematureage.
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I would like more men and woman ofmatureagewho have industrial and commercial experience to move into teaching.
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Now they have reached amatureage, and some of them have started their own small technical companies.
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This suggests that the take-up of the pharmacy product will be among the morematureagegroup.
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In those happy days when no ages of retirement were imposed he continued as governor until a verymatureage.
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That would make it certain that he was of a reasonablematureagebefore he undertook these judicial functions.
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It is recommended that air raid wardens should normally be recruited from responsible persons ofmatureage.
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