Example sentences of "as old as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as old as a hat pasted on a young man 's head in a mid-Victorian family album . |
| 2 | in the museum is as old as a Pharoah . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’ |
| 4 | For a start many of the buildings were nearly as old as the organisation . |
| 5 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 6 | On the contrary , the federation or confederation of states , whether for the purpose of pursuing common goals , ensuring common defence from a foreign power or in order to come to terms with a powerful neighbour , is as old as the federation of the city states of ancient Greece . |
| 7 | The notion that the IBS is related to or even caused by the patient 's psychological state is as old as the concept of IBS itself . |
| 8 | The term Designer , when applied to the visual medium , is almost as old as the medium itself . |
| 9 | Government concern about the problem of drink-related offending is as old as the Probation Service . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ageism … is as old as the history of the family … men used family as a way of colonizing women as a class . |
| 12 | The building of small , defensive forts , or blockhouses , is as old as the history of formal warfare . |
| 13 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it is clear that statutory interference with the right is almost as old as the right itself . |
| 17 | And the Store nomes say the Store is as old as the world . |
| 18 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 19 | Nearly half as old as the Store . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Concern with the functioning of elites in politics is as old as the study of politics itself , and in its earliest forms relied on common-sense assumptions , which are still the starting-point of much research , about the inevitability of the appearance of select groups of dominant individuals wielding political power in any given society . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the promotion of tourism was as old as the railway itself . |
| 25 | 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 . |