Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [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 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 4 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 5 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 6 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |