Example sentences of "[prep] the [adv] oldest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 2 | Archaeologists have established that Jericho can claim to be one of the very oldest cities in the world , with a history going back all of ten thousand years . |
| 3 | However , it is important to emphasize that , even in the very oldest age groups , ill health is not a universal feature of later life . |
| 4 | Clearly such services are being received by only a minority of elderly even in the very oldest age groups ( see Figure 8.4 ) . |
| 5 | Even among the very oldest old , those aged 85 and over , 19 per cent live in institutions . |
| 6 | However , it is worth noting that , even among the very oldest age group , almost half of the population do not report the presence of this type of health problem . |