Sentence examples for very old one from inspiring English sources

That work continued through Tuesday and has revealed that the beam gets thicker as it goes down, that it was hewed from a tree trunk, that it is at least 20 feet long and that it may well be the bowsprit of a ship — and a very old one at that, based on the 20 feet of compacted sediment it is sitting in.

The idea is a very old one.

The history of IP is a very old one and it begins 500 years BC.

Enough remains, however, to show that the group is a very old one indeed.

McG The very old one is to help you to enjoy life or to endure it.

Van Reybrouck's remedy is not new, but a very old one: what's called sortition.

Depending how you look at them, these are either new issues or very old ones, but since we're on the subject of the Beethoven concertos, the CD transfers of Artur Schnabel's brilliant traversal of the cycle, with Malcolm Sargent conducting, should be noted.

"The ones that were retired are the very old ones," Mr. Klimavicius said.

Very old ones can still be enforceable, though often this isn't straightforward.

It is only the female ginkgoes that produce these odoriferous fruits, and the only female ginkgoes in the city are very old ones.

This is where Ms. Wedding takes hours of interviews and edits out the "ums," and empty space and puts memories, sometimes very old ones, into chronological order.