Sentence examples for even very old from inspiring English sources

Numerous studies have shown that even very old, very weak people can gain strength and mobility through modest strength training.

The evidence suggests that it doesn't happen terribly often (perhaps it seems insufficiently celebratory?) given that most people, even very old and sick people, don't have advance directives.

You don't have to be elderly, or even very old, to develop delirium, a kind of brain attack often accompanied by hallucinations, agitation and disorientation that can exacerbate illness, increase medical costs and even hasten death.

What I'd really like, in fact, is to be young and middle-aged, and perhaps even very old, all at the same time — and to be dark- and fair-skinned, deaf and hearing, gay and straight, male and female.

Very few people upgrade quickly to new versions of Windows, meaning that people making applications have to ensure they work across even very old versions of the operating system.

Though all the changes introduced by Nikon affected only the outward forms of religion, some of which were not even very old, the population and much of the clergy resisted him from the beginning.

Most of the museum's cars and motorcycles, even the very old ones, have been restored and are regularly taken out for rides.

"Even that very old tradition of automatically handing down the family enterprise to the first-born son is waning," he said.

Despite public campaigns and private pleading, despite new approaches, a great majority of people — even the very old and very sick — don't complete the documents that would make their choices and preferences clear to their families or their doctors.

Nor does it seem to be any accident that these letters are usually addressed to extremely young selves – even the very old seemingly can't be bothered writing to the sullen, damaged middle aged ("You blew it!").

Some physiological characteristics, such as the mechanisms that regulate the acidity of the blood or its sugar level, are adequate to maintain normal levels under resting conditions even in very old people; however, the aged require more time than the young to reestablish normal levels when changes from the normal occur.