Example sentences of "not so young " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is young but not so young as Chela , who says she is 18 but looks 16 at the most . |
| 2 | Mona was loved and tolerated for such ethics by a great many people , the young as well as the not so young . |
| 3 | The Strip , at the westerly end of Sunset Boulevard and closest to the hub of the film industry , was the avenue for poseurs where every young hopeful — and plenty not so young — hung out to be discovered in one of the dozens of coffee bars that eventually gave way to rock ‘ n ’ roll clubs and then strip shows of the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 4 | His substitute and colleague , ensured that the dance floor was filled all night with dancers young and not so young enjoying a varied programme , leaving the floor reluctantly at 12.30am . |
| 5 | Mine is not so young . |
| 6 | At institutions of higher education across the country , young ( and not so young ) hopefuls settled down to study , conscious of the shortcomings within the Chinese political system but prepared to do their best for national reconstruction . |
| 7 | However , as Norton and Aughey ( 1981 ) comment of Conservative Party members in general , whether young or not so young , ‘ generally party activists tend not to devote their energies to political discussion , not because they are discouraged from doing so , but because they themselves prefer to do other things ’ ( pp. 219–20 ) . |
| 8 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 9 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 10 | And in any case , ’ he remarked pleasantly , ‘ you 're not so young , Bella . |
| 11 | The neighbours will say he 's a nice young man , well , not so young really . |
| 12 | Boys who would turn into men and follow him round the world , stand beside him at bars , exchange vulgarities , share the favours of the golf groupies , the young girls and some not so young , who hung around any group of sportsmen . |
| 13 | She was not so young and giddy that she had no understanding of the desires and problems of others . |
| 14 | Not so young and green , after all . ’ |
| 15 | I am not so young and green that I am unaware of that . |
| 16 | ‘ Come to think of it , he happens to be a very nice boy not so young , really . |
| 17 | And I have kept to that , although one or two of them have stayed with me and are therefore not so young any more . |
| 18 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 19 | And when you 're not so young either it 's , makes it er more awkward still , although she 's , she 's erm , she 's fairly well int she ? |
| 20 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |