Example sentences of "as old as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realisation of it , the working of it , that is the study of Drama , with the history of the theatre , which is as old as literature itself . |
| 2 | As she moved the drapes ( how old ? as old as Grandmother ? older perhaps ? ) across the window , Alice watched thin veils of dust rising from the folds and settling in new patterns on the velvet . |
| 3 | yet there is documentary evidence that nostalgia is as old as cricket itself . |
| 4 | Although the principles of the techniques are as old as mathematics itself , the ability to solve the complex equations was only available with the advent of electronic computers . |
| 5 | All this is as old as history . |
| 6 | Seagoing is as old as history and the merchant seaman as old as trade itself . |
| 7 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 8 | I think misogyny is is very ancient , it 's as old as man . |
| 9 | This harmony of hand and eye and the immersion of the child in crafts which are almost as old as humankind itself , should be central to the work of every school . |
| 10 | Nguyen Seth was as old as Death . |
| 11 | As an ideal socialism is as old as civilisation . |
| 12 | Language is as old as consciousness , language is practical consciousness that exists also for other men , and for that reason alone it really exists for me personally as well ; language like consciousness , only arises from the need , the necessity of intercourse with other men . |
| 13 | Not only did the king have a spare hour for what turned out to be an excellent interview in the palace gardens , but on learning that there was now no plane to take us home until Monday , laid on two helicopters to take us all on a Sunday outing to Petra ( the ‘ rose red city half as old as time ’ ) , then on to Aqaba on the Red Sea for lunch and a swim , and home across the desert and the black tents of the Bedouins in the evening . |
| 14 | ‘ Petra , … half as old as time ’ , buses from Aqaba or Amman . |
| 15 | It was at one such gathering that he described the venerable French cabaret singer Mistinguette as ‘ a rose-red cutie , half as old as time ’ . |
| 16 | They moved together in a dance as old as time until finally Travis slid between her parted thighs , hands going to her hips to hold her tightly against him and feel his desire . |
| 17 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 18 | The business of turning ‘ hot ’ money into legitimate tender is as old as crime itself , but it is only in recent years , largely because of the explosion of the drugs trade , that money laundering has become such a huge business . |
| 19 | Seagoing is as old as history and the merchant seaman as old as trade itself . |