At age seventy-four, he became what he shyly terms a `` pupil '' of Andres Segovia, the great guitarist of the Western world.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

At the age of ten, when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop, he was knocked down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg.

At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.

At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

At the age of 30, in 1905, Schweitzer answered the call of " The Society of the Evangelist Missions of Paris " which was looking for a medical doctor.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

At the age of 16 he apprenticed as a stonemason and by the age of 20 he had reached journeyman status in this field.

At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.

The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.

At age 17, Alcott passed the exam for a teaching certificate but had trouble finding work as a teacher.

At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.

At age 12 he was whiter than ivory, had hair lighter than gold, and could lift 10 bear skins at once.

At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

At the age of 18, Johnson married 16-year-old Eliza McCardle in 1827 ; she was the daughter of a local shoemaker.

At the age of fourteen he entered the Camaldolese Order in the Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist.

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

At the age of 13 he entered the Göttingen Gymnasium, residing at the home of one of the professors.

At age 18, the youth began a rapid advancement through the company, becoming the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division.

At the age of 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

At one astronomical unit from the sun ( the Earth's distance ) the dust orbits are probably nearly circular.

At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.

At temperatures near 0 K, nearly all molecular motion ceases and, when entropy = S, ΔS = 0 for any adiabatic process.

At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do.

At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents ' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.

At the time, Edison was investigating why the filaments of his carbon-filament light bulbs nearly always burned out at the positive-connected end.

At the 2005 General Assembly, over 3000 delegates voted nearly unanimously to elect the Sharon E. Watkins as General Minister and President of the denomination.

At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.

At the end of the fast the insulin should be nearly undetectable and ketosis should be fully established.

At this election, Holt saw his majority in Fawkner nearly disappear in the redistribution.

At the end, rival Lebanese leaders reached consensus over Doha Agreement on May 21, 2008, to end the 18-month political feud that exploded into fighting and nearly drove the country to a new civil war.

At the outset of Jeanne d ' Arc's appearance, the English had nearly achieved their goal of a dual monarchy under English control and the French army had not achieved any major victories for a generation.

At this point the crisis nearly escalated into an armed conflict, as Hungarian and Soviet forces were massing on the northern Yugoslav frontier.

At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.

At Sadler's Wells Theatre, Phelps brought back nearly all of Shakespeare's original text.

At the start of the project, the total cost was estimated at £ 2. 25M, although by time it was finished in 1984, it had risen by nearly four times that amount.

At this point, they ( along with nearly everyone else ) are unaware that Naismith and Miles Vorkosigan are one and the same.

At the beginning of Violeta Chamorro's nearly 7 years in office the Sandinistas still largely controlled the army, labor unions, and courts.

At Petoskey, Michigan in 1878, 50, 000 birds were killed each day for nearly five months.

At Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, 10 % of its Confederate prisoners died during one cold winter month ; and Elmira Prison in New York state, with a death rate of 25 %, very nearly equalled that of Andersonville.

At one time, Qataris owned nearly one-third of the Persian Gulf fishing fleet.

At nearly 3 million head of goat and sheep in 1999, the northern ports of Bosaso and Berbera accounted for 95 percent of all goat and 52 percent of all sheep exports of East Africa.

At the time of the Domesday Book, compiled in 1086, nearly 10 % of the English population were slaves.

At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years.