The phrase "age old notion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a belief or idea that has been held for a very long time, often implying that it is traditional or widely accepted.
Example: "The age old notion that hard work leads to success is still relevant today."
Alternatives: "ancient belief" or "time-honored idea".
The group's "whole idea was to reexamine the age-old notion of bonding through cooking and cooking together, which was something my co-founders and I thought was being lost in American society," he explains.
Africa is a Country, a news site whose name is a play on age-old notion of Africa as homogenous, tweeted the graphic suggesting it could replace CNN coverage.
She recognises that the government implemented this change "with good intentions", but the effect has been both to rile employers, and to underline the age-old notion that mothers - rather than parents - are solely responsible for childcare.
What's shocking is that Santorum thinks that women should be barred from combat because their presence would make military settings "emotional" – a sentiment that reflects nothing more than the age-old notion of female hysteria.
America must not retreat from the age-old notion that 12 jurors can look a witness in the eye and, after hearing contradictory evidence, appropriately weigh his or her credibility.
The focus has been so evidently on legs -- in brief skirts, tight pants, shorts and leggings -- that the age-old notion of an alternating sexual focus seems to have been abandoned.
The exhibition describes this look as expressive of her humility, though another word for it would be submissive; it evokes the age-old notion that a woman's direct gaze is impure.And though the exhibit takes pains to represent Mary as "a protagonist in her own rich life story", the images underscore the sense in which her story is marked, above all, by lack of agency.
Rosetta scientists are also killing off the age-old notion that comets are "dirty snowballs," mostly ice with some dust mixed in.
"At ViewSonic we only focus on one thing making better [computer] displays," says Chu. "I think the big reason we have been successful is because we believe in the age-old notion that the customer is king.
