Example sentences of "old as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in the museum is as old as a Pharoah . |
| 2 | It is as old as a hat pasted on a young man 's head in a mid-Victorian family album . |
| 3 | Football hooliganism , therefore , can neither be explained in terms of simple continuities nor as an abrupt discontinuity ; the location and the specific forms of juvenile riotousness were new but the phenomenon itself was as old as the hills . |
| 4 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |
| 5 | A mother can seem both ageless and as old as the hills to her child . |
| 6 | The song he is refashioning is another of Bilbo 's , though it is ‘ to a tune that was as old as the hills ’ . |
| 7 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 8 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 9 | In their hands , music is no longer wallpaper , but a living breathing organism as old as the hills , an old friend . |
| 10 | Mortgage scams were as old as the hills . |
| 11 | He assumes that his family is not only as old as the hills , but rather more structural , and that nature , although on the whole a good idea — ‘ a little low , perhaps , when not enclosed with a park-fence ’ — is none the less ‘ dependent for its execution on your great county families ’ . |
| 12 | PEG : I feel as old as the hills . |
| 13 | ‘ Old as the hills . ’ |
| 14 | An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally , usually made for effect , eg That story is as old as the hills ! |
| 15 | Amaranth 's eyes wandered : the hotel foyer was almost empty , and the only other couples seemed as old as the hills . |
| 16 | Tim Midgely , a director of Biomass , said : " The technology we 're using is as old as the hills . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We put the hyphen between ‘ veteran ’ and ‘ cycle ’ to indicate that it is the cycles which are old , though some of the members are almost as old as the machines , ’ Ian claimed . |
| 19 | Government concern about the problem of drink-related offending is as old as the Probation Service . |
| 20 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 21 | The idea of using roads for local distribution and the railways for the long-distance trunk haul is as old as the railways themselves . |
| 22 | Ageism … is as old as the history of the family … men used family as a way of colonizing women as a class . |
| 23 | The building of small , defensive forts , or blockhouses , is as old as the history of formal warfare . |
| 24 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 25 | For a start many of the buildings were nearly as old as the organisation . |
| 26 | Old as the Albert Hall . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're not as old as the man who had me first . ’ |
| 28 | As old as the peaks she could see from her window . |
| 29 | The term Designer , when applied to the visual medium , is almost as old as the medium itself . |
| 30 | 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 . |