The phrase "already very old" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has existed for a long time or has aged significantly.
Example: "The ancient ruins are already very old, yet they still attract many visitors each year."
Alternatives: "quite old" or "rather aged".
My parents are already very old, and their health leaves much to be desired.
It was already very old news when William Tecumseh Sherman remarked in 1872 that war is hell.
The best was a sentence taken from an old Chinese poem saying, "When you were born, I was not born, and when I was born, you were already very old so we did not meet".
One 81-year old Chinese female said that discussing death was not problematic because she was already very old.
But when all his words availed nothing he carried forth his armour and set it up in front of his house, saying that he had helped his country so far as lay in his power (he was already a very old man), and that he called on all others to do the same.
Her mother writes to decline, regretfully, a visit to her daughter because her rare pink cactus is about to flower – "Now, I am already a very old woman, and if I went away … I am certain I shouldn't see it flower again".
Thus, we hypothesize that the significance of mTOR-mediated cellular regulation subsides in the later phase of life, once an individual has already reached very old age.
"The first mention of it in literature was in the 1840s but it would already have been very old by then and certainly it was growing in the gardens at (National Trust property) Erddig, near Wrexham, because metal plate labels have been found with Denbigh seedling plum stamped on them".
Toca Builders takes its cues from Minecraft, the crafting game that is already very popular with older children, but ditches the gaming elements in favour of pure sandbox creativity.
I remember that, although I was very young at the time and he was very old already -- it was only a few years before he died -- he was extremely curious to learn from me what was happening inside the Italian Communist Party.
His bride was Frances Howard, 15 years old and already very "striking" (to use Shapiro's laconic description of a young woman whose career would lurch in a few short years from Jacobean sex goddess to convicted but pardoned murderer).
