Example sentences of "the same age [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 2 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 3 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 4 | Reveille Boy , at six the same age as Phar Lap but here in receipt of eleven pounds , had won the American Derby in 1930 . |
| 5 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 6 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 7 | Their younger daughter was the same age as Suzannah and went to and went to the same national school . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's only the same age as Tommy but I think she 's already a good enough organist to start playing in church on Sundays . ’ |
| 9 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 10 | And they had always treated Liz — the same age as Laura — just as though she were their own child . |
| 11 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 12 | Having herself lost her mother when she was three years old , the same age as Alex now , Victoria had watched the children carefully to see how they reacted to their loss . |
| 13 | She was the same age as Amy — well , a year older , since her twenty-third birthday last month — and Amy 's life might already be over . |
| 14 | She is the same age as Sandy — ten years old — and absolutely devoted to her . ’ |
| 15 | Cook , the same age as Graham Gooch but with a more youthful face behind his own brand of drooping moustache , is ready for the challenge . |
| 16 | I made friends with a girl in a similar plight : Sophie had twin boys the same age as Tom , and her husband , Jack , ex-R.A.F. with a handlebar moustache , was working for his exams in chartered accountancy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Julian Hayman was the same age as Quinn and they had known each other when Quinn lived in London and worked for the underwriting firm specializing in protection and hostage release . |
| 19 | let me see , Dan is the same age as John is n't he ? |
| 20 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | O'Brien is much the same age as Charles , and a man of huge industry and enthusiasm whom Charles is able to spark ideas off . |
| 22 | When you have a child of the same age as Jonathan , it really hits home . ’ |
| 23 | This makes her three years older than Vincent , and roughly the same age as Kee . |
| 24 | Her son , Mark , is the same age as James and yesterday his small body was strapped in his buggy . |
| 25 | And to think his wife is the same age as Una ! |
| 26 | Well it 's the same age as Waitrose is n't it ? , |
| 27 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 28 | Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined . |
| 29 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 30 | Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas . |