Example sentences of "[prep] a ripe old " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other consequence was that , if Stewart kings did not live and reign until a ripe old age , they had the immeasurable advantage of always having been kings ; most were barely aware , some not at all , of any time in their lives when they had not worn the crown . |
| 2 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 3 | It is a major triumph of the twentieth century that many more people survive to a ripe old age , but there can be no room for complacency . |
| 4 | These are the people who are often quoted as enjoying good health to a ripe old age despite smoking , drinking and never taking any exercise . |
| 5 | I have had no problem with them — nor did I when I originally starting keeping fish when I kept three that lived to a ripe old age . |
| 6 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 7 | An animal does indeed strive instinctively to keep alive , much as it will forage for food ( plants in unconscious and less mobile ways do also ) , but , lacking language , it is unduly anthropomorphic to describe this as hoping or aspiring to live to a ripe old age ; except perhaps as a joke . |
| 8 | When , in his thirties , he took driving lessons and passed his test Dorothy refused to go out in the car with him : ‘ I intend to live to a ripe old age , thank you very much . ’ |
| 9 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 10 | MEMBERS of the management team at Aberdeen Central Branch have been told to eat less and exercise more if they want to live to a ripe old age ! |
| 11 | It was not until they levelled out that she thought again about the possibility of living to a ripe old age . |
| 12 | In part this reflects increasing expenditure on state pensions as more and more people live to a ripe old age . |
| 13 | He marries Mary Magdalene and later Lazarus ' sister , has children , and lives to a ripe old age as a carpenter . |
| 14 | There 's no escape from that if you want to live to a ripe old age . |