Example sentences of "about the same age [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 2 | This person is about the same age but earns a bit more and so on and so forth , so your age increases . |
| 3 | The last is of interest to parents who wish to know where their child stands in relation to others of about the same age and also , at various levels of aggregation , to teachers , heads , LEAs , the Government and the wider community . |
| 4 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 5 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 6 | ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Was Miss Morgan about the same age as the rest of your partners ? ’ |
| 9 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is the natural gas found in rocks which are younger , older or about the same age as the Coal Measures ? |
| 12 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class , where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her . |
| 15 | I was 19 , that 's about the same age as most of the Manson group were . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered . |
| 19 | Four or five boys , about the same age as the Artful Dodger , sat round the table , smoking and drinking like middle-aged men . |
| 20 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 21 | The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big . |
| 22 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 23 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He 's about the same age as |
| 26 | 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 . |