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The phrase "a slim old" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe an elderly person who is slim, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "She was a slim old woman who moved gracefully despite her age."
Alternatives: "an elderly slim" or "a slender old".
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In idle moments I'd browse the spines, and one evening I happened to pluck out a slim old hardcover, something by D. H. Lawrence I didn't know.
A group of village elders greeted us, and I asked the chief — a slim old man with a white smock and a short spear — how many people there were in the caves.
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The New Yorker, August 17 , 1992P. 28 Leila Pinkerton, "a plump 68-year-old white woman," and a widow, lived in Waccasassa, Florida, next door to Fontane Whitley, a slim 29-year-old black woman, whose 12-year-old son Hiram had been missing for 3 days.
When the words won't come, David*, a slim 16-year-old boy, gently drums his fingers on his older brother's knee three times... Email this article.
When the words won't come, David*, a slim 16-year-old boy, gently drums his fingers on his older brother's knee three times.
It was hard to use a gun…" When the words won't come, David*, a slim 16-year-old boy, gently drums his fingers on his older brother's knee three times – enough to give him the courage to keep going.
But Laouratou Souley, a slim 17-year-old student, said she wanted none of that.
"I want to gain weight like Monique," said Antoinette Dossa, a slim 16-year-old student.
Not to be outdone, a slim 86-year-old man wearing big black glasses pulled out his own handbill bearing pictures of himself impersonating various celebrities.
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