Example sentences of "[adv] old as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as old as a hat pasted on a young man 's head in a mid-Victorian family album . |
| 2 | in the museum is as old as a Pharoah . |
| 3 | In this bright new world there is no place for the dragon : no one wants the shadow , wants the dark magic which is as old as the caves in the hills where we dwell . |
| 4 | The use of a supercharger to compress the air and fuel mixture is hardly new : the concept is almost as old as the motor car itself . |
| 5 | Football hooliganism , therefore , can neither be explained in terms of simple continuities nor as an abrupt discontinuity ; the location and the specific forms of juvenile riotousness were new but the phenomenon itself was as old as the hills . |
| 6 | Rap is as old as the human voice and just as versatile , so what follows here is just a progress report : four different artists with four different attitudes to the word |
| 7 | Although Mungo guessed that he was probably no more than fourteen , he seemed as old as the oldest adult . |
| 8 | Such an observation as that ‘ election riots were almost as old as the game laws : they too date from the Middle Ages and did not die out until the 1870's ’ does not help to settle the matter . |
| 9 | Government concern about the problem of drink-related offending is as old as the Probation Service . |
| 10 | On the contrary , the federation or confederation of states , whether for the purpose of pursuing common goals , ensuring common defence from a foreign power or in order to come to terms with a powerful neighbour , is as old as the federation of the city states of ancient Greece . |
| 11 | Jackie , himself , was there this time , looking as old as the late Emmet Ryan was at Paddy 's first Mass . |
| 12 | The idea of using roads for local distribution and the railways for the long-distance trunk haul is as old as the railways themselves . |
| 13 | The basic street pattern is no doubt as old as the village itself and the street names are mostly of ancient origin . |
| 14 | These contradictions are not recent phenomena but are at least as old as the Labour Party itself . |
| 15 | The emigration of Madeirans to far-flung places , where they worked hard and sent back funds to support their families in the island , is almost as old as the colonization of the island itself . |
| 16 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |
| 17 | A mother can seem both ageless and as old as the hills to her child . |
| 18 | The song he is refashioning is another of Bilbo 's , though it is ‘ to a tune that was as old as the hills ’ . |
| 19 | But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps the hope-association was as old as the star one ; perhaps ‘ Earendel ’ had contained a presentiment of salvation even for the old heroes ( like Beowulf ) who lived before Christianity was brought to them . |
| 21 | Nearly half as old as the Store . |
| 22 | And the Store nomes say the Store is as old as the world . |
| 23 | Ageism … is as old as the history of the family … men used family as a way of colonizing women as a class . |
| 24 | Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . |
| 25 | I had to travel about five miles on the bypass , and as the mini was elderly used the slow lane , to be sandwiched between a milk lorry ahead and a crowded estate-car , roughly as old as the mini , behind . |
| 26 | In their hands , music is no longer wallpaper , but a living breathing organism as old as the hills , an old friend . |
| 27 | The building of small , defensive forts , or blockhouses , is as old as the history of formal warfare . |
| 28 | If advertising is as old as the first caveman who scrawled " Bonzo is the greatest Caveman " across a cave wall , then public relations must have started before Mankind learned to write . |
| 29 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 30 | The term Designer , when applied to the visual medium , is almost as old as the medium itself . |