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of an age1Old enough to be able or expected to do something: the sons are of an age to marry...- Leaving aside that they are not yet of an age considered able to make mature decisions, many are driven into conflict by pressures beyond their control, usually economic in nature.
- Mary Boyd Higgens is the main person behind it, though she must be very advanced in years now, as she was alive and of an age advanced enough to be appointed trustee when Reich died in '57.
- Of the 6 blokes I am 1 of only 2 who is not married and is still of an age where getting blind drunk and climbing on top of bus shelters is ‘a plan’.
2(Of two or more people or things) of a similar age: the children all seemed of an age...- Bryan McFadden, of an age with me, has released a song called Irish Son.
- From my mid-30s to mid-40s, there were those who told me I looked just like Reba McEntire. We are of an age, and, at the time, I found it quite annoying.
- A well written story and something we, as we are of an age can understand where others cannot.
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