Example sentences of "the same age [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale .
2 He looked down into his glass and in a much lower voice now he said , ‘ Annie was put into the mill when she was seven , the same age as that young ‘ un . ’
3 You 're the same age as that boy would have been , see if you 've got sixteen ! ’
4 This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously .
5 It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them .
6 I was 19 , that 's about the same age as most of the Manson group were . ’
7 But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months .
8 He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening .
9 The condition is , however , almost unknown among healthy men of the same age as those in the survey .
10 A thousand miles northeast of the Grand Canyon , ancient rocks of about the same age as those beside the Colorado River outcrop on the shores of Lake Superior .
11 But in time term " , these limestones are very much of the same age as those in Europe and , as I have said elsewhere , " the Niagara Falls are nothing more than the Niagara River falling over an escarpment of Wenlock Limestone " .
12 The patients , being the same , have the same abnormalities of their physiological variables at the moment of admission , and also the same age and chronic health status .
13 In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants .
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