Sentence examples for half as old as from inspiring English sources

Today, he writes, it is half as old as the United States.

Nearing his 40th birthday, Messier is only slightly more than half as old as the franchise.

He is twenty-one, about half as old as Mosley, and already an A-list celebrity in his native Mexico, where boxing remains an A-list sport.

The movie, it seemed, dramatized a host of doubts and fears and fascinations, some half as old as time, some with a decent claim to be postmodern.

And Vernon L. Lee, who at 100 is half as old as the village, recalled one of its Jewish merchants in an interview about his selection as the parade's grand marshal in late August.

PETRA, that Jordanian "rose-red city half as old as time," is a spectacular place where a narrow, dark ravine suddenly opens into a vista of massive temples with Hellenic columns and pediments carved into red sandstone cliffs.

He made his first splash in 1978, when he, Marc Aaronson of the University of Arizona and Jeremy Mould, now at the University of Melbourne in Australia, announced that the universe was expanding twice as fast and was therefore only half as old — about nine billion years — as most astronomers had thought.

Silurana allotetraploids are about half as old [ 39].

Mr. Stoppard calls it Pan: "a beautiful boy as old as music, half-goat, half-god".

If Xavier is twice as old as Yvonne and half the square of her age, how old is each?

A vocation as old as politics and half as dirty.