Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [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 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |