Example sentences of "old the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it must have been over a hundred years old the cottage was still on the edge of the village simply because there was no building land beyond it . |
| 2 | Theodora knew of old the willingness of the clergy to be far ruder over the phone than they would venture to be face to face . |
| 3 | There is no way to tell how old the tree is ? |
| 4 | But erm there , there are a couple of different rates at which er income support is claimed depending on how old the child is . |
| 5 | But erm that old the A and B we used to call them actually . |
| 6 | I would like to know how old the pump is and what the original price would have been . |
| 7 | They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him . |
| 8 | The concentrations of freon eleven and freon twelve dissolved in surface waters have both increased dramatically since nineteen fifty but not by the same amount and so measuring their ratio in a sea water sample will tell us how old the water is . |
| 9 | The famous team at the Baking Stall were more successful than ever with the ‘ talent envelope scheme ’ whereby bakers were given £5 with the request that they ‘ Take , Buy , Bake and Multiply , ’ just as of old the man in the parable had bidden his servants . |
| 10 | At four and a half months old , young pigs are taken for slaughter to be sold as pork ; at six months old the remainder meet their end as bacon . |
| 11 | And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today . |
| 12 | When I was four years old the book reads : ‘ Very fond of dressing up , especially in an old nylon nightdress ’ — ‘ the princess dress … ’ |
| 13 | It is easily forgotten how old the task of interpreting is , but how new the profession of interpreter is . |
| 14 | There 's one thing about it , only been a year old the heating is in good condition , you 're warm in there . |
| 15 | Almost 15pc of single and double deckers in service in the county are more than 15 years old the limit of their economic life . |
| 16 | Reductions depend on what death benefit already applies under the policy , how old the policyholder was when he took out the policy , how old he is now and when the pension is to be taken . |
| 17 | And I did n't know how lo how old the sugar cubes were . |
| 18 | I did n't know how old the sugar cubes were . |
| 19 | As in Jacob 's dream of old the movement is from earth to heaven . |
| 20 | It 's not just the old the burglars are targetting . |
| 21 | Find out how old the place is . |
| 22 | By 19 years old the children smoked as much as their parents — 28 per cent of boys indulged compared with 36 per cent of girls . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me how old the stones are , and I 'll ring you again in a few days . ’ |
| 24 | As she grew older the problem took on mammoth proportions . |
| 25 | This has been the year of Russian exhibitions , generally better the older the art . |
| 26 | The older the leaves are the duller they appear . |
| 27 | But the cells usually died when they underwent the reduction division ( meiosis ) necessary to produce gametes with half the parental chromosomes , so that the older the fetus the fewer the germ cells found . |
| 28 | Since these females may breed more effectively when older the system is not necessarily disadvantageous to them ( Elliot 1975 ) . |
| 29 | As the calf grows older the bond with the mother weakens , although it may last 2 or 3 years . |
| 30 | There is little variation by sex or social class in these attitudes , and little consistent variation with age except that the older the respondents , the more likely they are to consider Respect for authority and Discipline and orderliness essential , and the less likely to consider Sex education essential . |