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• There are three ages living in her house.
• He grew fat as he aged.
• As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
• I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.
• They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
• One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
• Money's a little tight right now, let's age our bills for a week or so.
• Grief ages us.
• It's been an age since we last saw you.
• What is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
• the Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age;  the Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic epoch
• the golden age;  the age of Pericles
• The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.
• the age of consent;  the age of discretion
• to come of age;  he (or she) is of age
• Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.