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It was a difficult age; no longer child but not quite man.
Everyone in my school works hard to educate children who are at a difficult age and need all the help we can give them.
"She was 42 years old, a difficult age for women to give birth.
That is, she was at a difficult age.
Recently recommended books for children: 0-3 This is probably the most difficult age to choose for.
This can be a difficult age to teach.
'Rose came to me when she was fifteen - a difficult age.
It must be the most difficult age ever invented!'
He is writing difficult poetry for a difficult age, he said.
It was only that fourteen was a difficult age.
A strange and difficult age, but not as difficult as what we are going through in my present.
"It's a difficult age," her father observed, his calmness somewhat restored.
Then we can focus on the real question of our moral responsibilities in a new and difficult age of scientific achievement.
'But Alison's at a difficult age, and sometimes young girls get things out of all proportion.
A difficult age, Julia teasingly remarked to him once.
"Fourteen is a difficult age, given to melodrama and long-held resentment."
It's a difficult age for young girls.
You could almost hear their good intentions creaking as they made allowances for 'the difficult age'.
"I'm approaching a difficult age for most singers.
She's just at a difficult age.
"But then fourteen is a difficult age."
They changed schools at difficult ages.
At fifteen, her daughter was at a difficult age, too old to be considered a child, too young for the responsibilities of adulthood.
Ashur-dan's reign was a difficult age for the Assyrian monarchy.
It's a difficult age, of course.