Sentence examples for former age from inspiring English sources
He it is who has chosen to simulate the mannered ampleness of a former age.
And it sounds like no one else: a throwback to a former age, but entirely modern at the same time.
Artworks such as Laura Oldfield Ford's Ferrier Estate picture them as decayed and dilapidated remnants of a former age now taken over by the creative class.
Overheard conversation: "Does that Chelsea boot date from the late 50s or, would you say, early 60s?" There are, though, some unmediated remnants of a former age.
Two years ago, he gave us his epic-length, made-for-TV Lil' Quinquin – now he has Slack Bay, about grandly wealthy French families of a former age holidaying in northern France and discovering the exotically grisly locals.
If even reading such a play is a waste of time, asking talented female actors to abase themselves before the violent misogyny of a former age is much, much worse.
An injury to Kelly Haimona, starter in four of Italy's Six Nations matches this year, means the Azzurri are overly reliant on Tommaso Allan, the former Scotland under-20 fly-half who faced four of his former age-grade team-mates in Turin.
The level of popular expectation is much higher than in former ages.
The silt of the great rivers encroaches constantly on the sea, leaving seaports of former ages dry.
Needless to say, it's not possible to conduct epistolary experiments to deduce the human social networks of former ages.
After examining seashore fossils, Hooke wrote in 1667: "There have been many other Species of Creatures in former Ages of which we can find none at present".
