Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the same age " in BNC.

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1 We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’
2 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 .
3 ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely .
4 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 .
5 It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them .
6 He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young .
7 Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches .
8 The girl was approximately the same age as the rector , must have weighed thirteen stone , and was dressed in a rather tight flowered overall .
9 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 .
10 She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years .
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