Example sentences of "[adv] old as [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realisation of it , the working of it , that is the study of Drama , with the history of the theatre , which is as old as literature itself . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in many parts of the country , a problem as old as cities themselves — tension between cultural groups , between earlier immigrants and newer ones , between black , brown , and white , and ( increasingly ) between large sections of urban youth and the police — came to be identified as the key inner-city issue . |
| 3 | yet there is documentary evidence that nostalgia is as old as cricket itself . |
| 4 | Although the principles of the techniques are as old as mathematics itself , the ability to solve the complex equations was only available with the advent of electronic computers . |
| 5 | This harmony of hand and eye and the immersion of the child in crafts which are almost as old as humankind itself , should be central to the work of every school . |
| 6 | Seeing God in everything has been known for nearly 400 years as pantheism , though the idea is as old as religion itself . |
| 7 | The business of turning ‘ hot ’ money into legitimate tender is as old as crime itself , but it is only in recent years , largely because of the explosion of the drugs trade , that money laundering has become such a huge business . |
| 8 | Seagoing is as old as history and the merchant seaman as old as trade itself . |