Example sentences of "the same age [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only girl , Roberta , or Berta , as the family called her , was the same age as her cousin Sandy and although ‘ chesty ’ as they said , she was certainly spirited enough , and more than kept up with all the boys . |
| 2 | He was a big man with a fine moustache about the same age as her father had been , Emily guessed , but it was quite apparent that he considered himself quite a dandy . |
| 3 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 4 | One woman , Helen Edwards , said she was horrified to discover that James was the same age as her son Mark . |
| 5 | He 's erm three no he 's the same age as her baby next door I think . |
| 6 | A woman the same age as their combined ages stepped into the car at Woodford and quickly stepped out again when she saw Lee swinging from the passenger hand-holds , Damon and Kevin sparring on the floor and Chris doing something to a continental ferry advertisement with a red felt-tipped pen . |
| 7 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
| 8 | Agnes watched the young , plump , matronly lady look at the young man , whom she imagined to be the same age as his wife . |
| 9 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 10 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |
| 11 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 12 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
| 13 | Ten years ago , I met an attractive woman who was the same age as my mother . |
| 14 | But we do detect quasars relatively near in space , and hence at virtually the same age as our own Galaxy ( some 15 000 million years ) . |