Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] the [det] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 2 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's only the same age as Tommy but I think she 's already a good enough organist to start playing in church on Sundays . ’ |
| 4 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 5 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 6 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 7 | We 're exactly the same age , and have similar backgrounds , so we 're on common ground from the start . |
| 8 | I was pretty certain of the approach I had to take and the fact that we 're virtually the same age was an advantage . |
| 9 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 10 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 11 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 12 | Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society . |
| 13 | And they are not the same age . |
| 14 | Now as far as I 'm concerned , if the benefit to B is greater , supposing for example , they 're not the same age , sorry , I should n't have said that about being the same age . |
| 15 | Er , supposing they 're not the same age . |
| 16 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 17 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |