The phrase "a combination of old" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used when discussing elements that are mixed or blended, particularly in relation to something that is considered old or traditional.
Example: "The design is a combination of old and new styles, creating a unique aesthetic."
Alternatives: "a blend of the past" or "a mix of traditional elements."
In the interest of nutritional balance, I've got a combination of old and new, fiction and non, light fare and dark.
The Supreme Court case concerned a fairly typical dispute over whether a combination of old elements in a new way was new or simply "obvious" to any expert.
"Trafigura thought it was buying silence," said Rusbridger. "A combination of old media – the Guardian – and new – Twitter – turned attempted obscurity into mass notoriety".
"What we need is a combination of old ways and new ways," says Dr Drews, who is now a partner at Bear Stearns Health Innoventures.
"We wanted a combination of old and new — my husband, Sam, who's an art dealer, especially cared about the old — and this was the perfect combination".
Mr. Deiaco describes the restaurant as a combination of old and up-to-date, with recycled wood and a tin ceiling coexisting with a steel and glass facade.
The Israelis are well known for cooperating with the United States on major intelligence targets, mostly Iran, while using a combination of old-fashioned spies and sophisticated electronic techniques to decipher Washington's internal debates, the officials say.
Auto restorations can vary greatly in quality, but Mr. Nicodemus, who works with a combination of old-school hammers and dollies and the latest plasma cutters and grinders, produces Cadillacs intended to hold up under a judge's magnifying glass.
The University of Phoenix, set up in 1989 to teach adults through a combination of old-fashioned distance learning and evening classes, is incorporating more and more e-learning into its courses, which are mostly taken by people with full-time jobs.
This is an idea being pursued by many medical researchers, who would like to tailor treatments to individual patients using a combination of old-fashioned silicon chips, and new-fangled biochips, which are technically known as DNA microarrays.As its name suggests, a DNA microarray consists of a small piece of material (usually glass) divided into hundreds of thousands of tiny cells.
On Saturday at "The Ritz," Terrence McNally's play about a Mafioso's son-in-law hiding out from a hit man in a gay bathhouse, the audience seemed a combination of older gay couples, who might have seen the original production in 1975, and tourists who were taking what they could get.
