Example sentences of "as old as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These contradictions are not recent phenomena but are at least as old as the Labour Party itself . |
| 2 | If advertising is as old as the first caveman who scrawled " Bonzo is the greatest Caveman " across a cave wall , then public relations must have started before Mankind learned to write . |
| 3 | His name was Tuan Ti Fo and , though he squatted like a young man , his muscles uncomplaining under him , he was as old as the great City itself . |
| 4 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 5 | Rap is as old as the human voice and just as versatile , so what follows here is just a progress report : four different artists with four different attitudes to the word |
| 6 | Although Mungo guessed that he was probably no more than fourteen , he seemed as old as the oldest adult . |