Here, in due course, the Princess Royal would make her debut, signalling that she was of an age to take a husband.
Most of this worked quite efficiently (although it took me an age to get the knack of making the music beam to the speaker).
This weekend the Pope has turned 83, he is not of an age to change ingrained Vatican attitudes towards the management of his Church.
Remember, says Klaus Friedrich, chief economist at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, that it took the markets an age to accept that low inflation was likely to endure.
"It took us an age to get going in the game, probably because we had been away for a two-week break and Hearts are a decent side, " said Lennon.
The roof now closed because of rain, Djokovic, by now taking an age to deliver each serve, dug deep to hold his next service game, but Berdych's double-fisted backhand was beginning to yield results.
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Villa crumbled and Malouda piled on the agony after he was set up by Lampard and substitute Salomon Kalou made it six when he shot low past Friedel after Nicolas Anelka had been given what seemed like an age to turn in the area.
It took Mascarenhas an age to get going - no fours were hit between the 10th and 16th overs - and this might have affected Pietersen who unnecessarily aimed a premeditated sweep at a full toss from Jadeja and was plumb lbw for 46 from 27 balls.
Haggis decided at an early age to be a writer, and he made his own comic books.
Less than four months after it ended, the Guiliani era already seems an age ago to most New Yorkers.
So I learned at an early age to bring a long book to help whittle away the hours spent lying on the sand.
Malala was attacked by extremists while she was on a school bus, because of her known efforts from an early age to promote the right to education for girls, defying obstacles and even death threats.
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry, " he told the cardinals.
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine Ministry, " he added.
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine Ministry, " the pope said in a declaration in Latin to a gathering of cardinals on Monday.
Media specialists are ideally suited to an age when working out how to reach your audience is as important as working out how best to express your message, because they are comfortable working across a range of media and are used to quantitative analysis.
The Screen Actors Guild has held meetings with IMDb to propose using an age range as opposed to specific digits.
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Implementing a STEM-focused curriculum as early as elementary school allows educators to spark an interest in these subjects at an impressionable age and to encourage that interest to grow throughout high school and beyond.
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Of the retirees and pre-retirees who guessed the age to which an average person of his or her age and sex could expect to live, about 4 in 10 underestimated the age by five or more years and another 2 in 10 underestimated it by 2 to 4 years.
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While in his 60s, he visited Las Vegas for a medical conference and was introduced to Cenegenics, an age management company that aspired to make its patients "look and feel years younger".
He brings an insider's wit to tracing the fate of official Christianity in an age of doubt, and to addressing modern surges of zeal, from Mormons to Pentecostals.
Rob McBride, a so-called "tree hunter" who measures and logs trees, said it was rare for an oak to live to such an age, with most usually lasting around 900 years.
But shortly after moving to an age-restricted community three miles away, the couple started to re-create aspects of their old life.
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She was an accomplished heart surgeon who went back to school at age 40, to earn an MBA so that she could take a leadership role in championing medical devices that could transform patient care worldwide.
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The harried prime minister Manmohan Singh will be 80, and "can make age an excuse to retire".
The church has no paid professional clergy, so all boys from an early age learn to become church leaders.
Richard came of an age looking up to the men who had helped shape the post-war world -- Dean Acheson, Averill Harriman, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk.
His voluntary return to action at an age when he was too old to fly fighter planes and too fat to squeeze into the cockpit without difficulty marked his own escape from his planet B-612.
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