Example sentences of "the same age [conj] [pron] " 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 | ‘ Almost the same age as her — Angie , I mean . ’ |
| 7 | Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class , where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 13 | This may sound ridiculous , but I have recently met a very nice man , the same age as me , similar tastes , sense of humour , not exactly good-looking but perfectly presentable , and I 'm wondering whether or not I should marry him . |
| 14 | I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old . |
| 15 | I also feel very sorry for him : he is the same age as me and I would hate to be put under the pressure that was evident in his shaking frame after his statement . |
| 16 | Although she called me ‘ boy ’ , she was the same age as me , but she seemed much older than me . |
| 17 | My sister-in-law is just about the same age as me , and whether it 's because she 's not his daughter , but he treats her completely different . |
| 18 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 19 | I used to be All the lads the same age as me there . |
| 20 | Yeah in having said that you 're the same age as me |
| 21 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 22 | Work something out , its rather extraordinary happens to people of the same age as me |
| 23 | The same age as myself , thought Juliet as she read , and tried to imagine what it would be like . |
| 24 | The majority of elderly people are also , as already mentioned , female and continue long past retiring age to perform the tasks almost universal among women at all ages : domestic and other unpaid services for themselves and others , some older , some younger , some the same age as themselves . |
| 25 | I would love to hear from mums around my age with children the same age as mine . |
| 26 | ‘ Jolly odd having a stepmother the same age as you . |
| 27 | Brothers sisters , they 're the same age as you more or less , not necessarily a good idea . |
| 28 | Kid — she 's the same age as I am . ’ |
| 29 | Agnes watched the young , plump , matronly lady look at the young man , whom she imagined to be the same age as his wife . |
| 30 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |