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The phrase "a ripe old" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to someone who has reached an advanced age, often with a connotation of having lived a long and fulfilling life.
Example: "She celebrated her 90th birthday, a ripe old age that few people reach."
Alternatives: "a venerable age" or "a great age".
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Susan lived to a ripe old age.
I hated it as a child: "a ripe old age".
"To summarize, want to live until a ripe old age?
In fact, she lived to a ripe old age, and died in 1984.
You live to a ripe old age, presumably, and you could even be happy.
I am 56 and plan to live to a ripe old age.
LIVING to a ripe old age should be cause for celebration.
CATARACTS are relatively common in people who live to a ripe old age.
The man who treated himself made a full recovery and lived to a ripe old age.
Mungo Man was about 50 when he died - a ripe old age for a hunter-gatherer.
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If every rhino now lives to a ripe-old arthritic age, it is because no predator dares try to kill him.
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