Sentences with phrase «at the age of»

Dulce Garcia is an undocumented immigrant who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 4.

Holmes dropped out of Stanford University during her sophomore year to start the company at the age of 19.

He fled with his family from Iran to Greece at the age of 13.

Larry Harvey, the founder of the Burning Man festival, has died at the age of 70 after suffering a stroke earlier this month.

Last year a woman who had an ovary frozen at the age of 13 gave birth after doctors used the tissue to restore her fertility.

Family patriarch Albert Latner died in 2015 at the age of 88, having built his father - in - law's construction business into one of Toronto's largest real estate developers.

I sometimes hear my mother's voice in my head because my mother was diagnosed at the age of 22 with an illness called polymyositis.

When Baker started D2L in 1999 at the age of 22, he became an early evangelist for technology's potential to improve the classroom.

It didn't feel like the anesthetic 12th floor clinic of the National Cancer Institute's Building 10, where I'd had chemo decades earlier at the age of 15.

«If you're a couple, and you both retire at the age of 65, there is close to a 9 in 10 chance that one of you will be alive in your 90s,» he explains.

She is also a huge music festival fan having attended more than 30 since her first one at the age of 16.

I began my company in 1996 as an entrepreneur at the age of 26 working to enhance and make the wedding industry in Michigan one of epic proportion.

She was first propelled into the national spotlight at the age of 20, when she wedded Great Britain's Prince Charles at the age of 20.

«The reason I'm still here at the age of 69 is because I'm still having fun,» he says.

Unfortunately, that day came much sooner than he expected when his dad passed away only a few years later, at the age of 59.

«At the age of 19, you think the world is fair because, really, up until that point it is — to you,» she muses.

Lynda Weinman, a self - taught web and motion graphics designer, originally started the site at the age of 40 with her husband Bruce as a way to communicate to the students in her very successful web design class.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

At the age of 18 he was pretty much resigned to a future of low - paid drone work in a restaurant or some such to support his passion.

Zappos founder Tony Hsieh started a worm farm at the age of nine, with the goal of becoming «the number one worm farmer in the world.»

A poorly trained, poorly disciplined person at the age of 45 is harder to teach than a young person just out of a university.

This was previously set at the age of 16 before 2007.

In 1982, at the age of 18, Vanman had a major accident.

Yesterday I saw two biopic films: «Amy» about the life of Jazz sensation Amy Winehouse who died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27 and «Montage of Heck» about the life of Kurt Cobain, the grunge - rock generational voice who died of an overdose of heroin and valium at the age of... 27.

In the 1980s, he famously orchestrated a coup at Vancity, English Canada's largest credit union, getting elected chairman of the board at the age of 30.

Kev is continuing the «work with family tradition» by bringing on his daughter as Business Development Director at the age of 23.

Zig Ziglar, a revered author on leadership, sales and personal development, died on Wednesday at the age of 86.

My life didn't change until I moved away from my hometown at the age of 29.

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara died last month in Tokyo at the age of 105.

As a junior in college — and at the age of 20 — he took his student loan money and bought a nearby campus bar.

Before she died at the age of 38, Irving says he'd promised her he'd do what he could within his field to forward her work.

I worked there for about five years before opening my first Buffalo's Cafe at the age of 26.

Canadian business tycoon Paul Desmarais Sr. has died at the age of 86, Power Corp. of Canada says.

MONTREAL — Paul Desmarais, one of Canada's most influential business tycoons and a strong federalist, has died at the age of 86.

And now, at the age of 32, she heads up a San Francisco - based recruiting technology company, 1 - Page, that last month went public — not on the NASDAQ, but instead on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Harper decided to adopt and become a single father at the age of 51.

At the age of 24, he called me to his office and said, «You're the new head of A&R.»

Apparently she divorced the third husband and «retired,» at the age of 45, to a condo in Florida.

In a video posted to a pro-North Korea website, the sons revealed that James Joseph Dresnok died from a stroke at the age of 74, according to The New York Times.

At the age of 28, Brennan Turner has seen more golden opportunities than most of us will over our entire careers.

Linda Brown, who at the age of 9 became the cornerstone figure in the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down segregation in the nation's schools, has died.

Hard to believe his very first job was as a DJ at the age of 13, right?

«I watched CNBC and I took up an interest in gold at the age of 15.»

This was the essence of a problem I ran into in 1969, when at the age of 19 I started a mail - order record business.

A teenage immigrant from Hong Kong (his English remains heavily accented and he doesn't speak French), Ma opened his first venue, a Chinese and Polynesian restaurant, in 1979, at the age of 29.

Allison Lickley began recording music at the age of 16.

McGowan's memoir will also focus on the actress» upbringing in the Children of God cult, how she escaped it at the age of 13, and how she eventually ended up getting «discovered» in Los Angeles.

I was the founder and chief executive of my own company in 2002 at the age of 22.

The transformative speaker and author on leadership died this morning at the age of 86.

The internationally renowned South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, whose music was an integral part of the soundtrack to the struggle against Apartheid, has passed away at the age of 78 following a battle against prostate cancer.