41.   The youngster with the flip charts could be the next Bill Gates, who founded the Microsoft Corp. at just such a tender age.

42.   Whether they sustain careers or bottom out fast, all of them will have to deal with the unique challenges of achieving stardom at a tender age.

43.   Would I ever allow my own child to go off to a seminary at such a tender age?

44.   Yet they do, at ever more tender ages.

45.   At his tender age and with his ample ability, Els should emerge as one of the golfers who will keep Tiger Woods from dominating golf.

46.   At such a tender age, youths like Sufiah Farooq and Allan Lim Eng Kian have achieved much in life and done their country proud.

47.   At such a tender age she shows the game, patience and maturity that could make her the most successful Open player ever.

48.   At the tender age of three-and-a-half she acted in her first television commercial - as a ballerina in a milk commercial.

49.   Because of poverty, Prinya had to box at a very tender age to earn money for the family despite his homosexual inclinations.

50.   Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Tillotson started singing at the tender age of nine.