Example sentences of "be [adv] the same age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other . |
| 2 | And they are not the same age . |
| 3 | We 're exactly the same age , and have similar backgrounds , so we 're on common ground from the start . |
| 4 | Now as far as I 'm concerned , if the benefit to B is greater , supposing for example , they 're not the same age , sorry , I should n't have said that about being the same age . |
| 5 | Er , supposing they 're not the same age . |
| 6 | I was pretty certain of the approach I had to take and the fact that we 're virtually the same age was an advantage . |
| 7 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 8 | Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society . |
| 9 | We have a very similar Northern background , are roughly the same age and have the same sense of humour . |
| 10 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 11 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 12 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 13 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's only the same age as Tommy but I think she 's already a good enough organist to start playing in church on Sundays . ’ |
| 15 | O'Brien is much the same age as Charles , and a man of huge industry and enthusiasm whom Charles is able to spark ideas off . |
| 16 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 17 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 18 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 19 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |
| 20 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 21 | The girl was approximately the same age as the rector , must have weighed thirteen stone , and was dressed in a rather tight flowered overall . |
| 22 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
| 23 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |