• Tennis fans will notice an important similarity between player and coach: Mr. Lendl lost his first four Grand Slam finals and was seen as mentally weak before winning his first at age 24 and then winning seven more.

    WSJ: Andy Murray Tries to Crack Tennis's Inner Circle

  • Since 2004 MMR vaccination coverage has generally increased each year - in June 2011 quarterly figures showed it had reached 90% in the UK, for the first dose taken before the age of two.

    BBC: MMR vaccine uptake reaches 14-year high

  • He must have done something right because I carried this lesson into my adult life, enabling me to buy my first piece of property before the age of 25.

    FORBES: What My Dad's Death Taught Me About Money

  • Blinded by an eye infection before his first birthday, he learned to play the banjo at the age of five before picking up a guitar in his early teens.

    BBC: Doc Watson, folk and bluegrass guitarist, dies aged 89

  • Mr. Merah was brought before a judge for the first time at age 16, for allegedly throwing a stone at a bus.

    WSJ: French Killer Mohamed Merah's Path to Jihadist Rampage

  • Noguchi climbed his first mountain, Mont Blanc, at age 16 before becoming the youngest person to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents.

    CNN: Ken Noguchi: Scaling environmental heights

  • It's Tracy Austin, who quit for the first time at the age of 20 in 1983, before making a comeback.

    BBC: 7 questions on early retirement

  • First of all, if the surviving spouse has remarried before age 60, the Survivor Benefit is no longer available to him or her.

    FORBES: The Social Security Survivor Benefit - Part 1

  • In the early days of his career, he assisted established photographer Trevor Key before setting out on his own, shooting his first ad campaign at age 27 for Gucci.

    WSJ: Contributors

  • The government has asked the committee to examine the proposals before the finalised bill is introduced - and their first group of witnesses include Age UK, Carers UK, the TUC, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Pensions Policy Institute, former government pensions policy adviser Dr Ros Altmann, former Labour minister Baroness Hollis of Heigham and Professor Jay Ginn (Institute of Gerontology, King's College London), Women's Budget Group.

    BBC: Week ahead in committees

  • Button spent seven years with his former team in their various incarnations before winning the world title at the age of 29 in the team's first season as Brawn.

    BBC: Hamilton challenge excites Button

  • Official advice is that children should receive their first dose of the vaccine at the age of one and the second before they start school, and anyone in Wales who is older than this and has not received the full two doses of the vaccine should come forward for immunisation.

    BBC: Measles outbreak 'worst in years'

  • Bloom first performed before an audience on the stage of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury at the age of four.

    BBC: Orlando Bloom backs East Kent City of Culture bid

  • Miss Hall gave birth to daughter Amelia at the age of 15, then went on to complete a First Diploma for IT Practitioners before she started studying for her A-levels.

    BBC: George Shopland

  • "We were raised to be quiet and let the man talk first, " says Idelsa Mendez, who moved to the US at the age of 18 before her family followed later.

    BBC: Dominican women in US challenge 'machismo' culture

  • Congress began trying to provide old-age insurance for something close to 100% of the population as early as 1939, before the first Social Security benefits were paid.

    CNN: A Debt-Threatened Dream

  • But then it has fallen for all age groups, and most of the decrease came during the party's first year, before the New Deal was in operation.

    ECONOMIST: The economy

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