Example sentences of "[adv] as old as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start many of the buildings were nearly as old as the organisation . |
| 2 | I had to travel about five miles on the bypass , and as the mini was elderly used the slow lane , to be sandwiched between a milk lorry ahead and a crowded estate-car , roughly as old as the mini , behind . |
| 3 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 4 | Human variations of waste recycling are at least as old as the practice of ‘ folding ’ sheep on the poorer uplands of medieval Europe to manure the fields and provide nutrients for summer cereals . |
| 5 | Its origins are at least as old as the appointment by St. Paulinus in 627 of James the Deacon to educate the singing boys in York . |
| 6 | The term Designer , when applied to the visual medium , is almost as old as the medium itself . |
| 7 | The use of a supercharger to compress the air and fuel mixture is hardly new : the concept is almost as old as the motor car itself . |
| 8 | The emigration of Madeirans to far-flung places , where they worked hard and sent back funds to support their families in the island , is almost as old as the colonization of the island itself . |
| 9 | Such an observation as that ‘ election riots were almost as old as the game laws : they too date from the Middle Ages and did not die out until the 1870's ’ does not help to settle the matter . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it is clear that statutory interference with the right is almost as old as the right itself . |
| 11 | Nearly half as old as the Store . |