Sentence examples for were older than expected from inspiring English sources

The men were older than expected, and the couples faced hard compromises to create new lives and a community.

For example, δ13C values between -22.0 and -24.7‰ of food remains on pottery belonging to the Pitted Ware Culture were interpreted as reflecting terrestrial origin, although the radiocarbon dates were older than expected [83].

The relic, thought to originate from St. Birgitta, has an age corresponding to the 13th century (1215 1270 cal AD, 2σ confidence), which is older than expected.

A first explanation could be that the CMS genomes are older than expected due to balancing selection that may have favored their maintenance over larger timescales than non-CMS genomes (Charlesworth 2002; Touzet and Delph 2009).

Patients who did not expect their oncologist to offer them chemotherapy were older than those who expected their oncologist to offer chemotherapy (t=−2.51, df=138, P=0.01).

In 2006, the mean life expectancy of the Swedish population was 82.8 years for females and 78.4 years for males [ 33], indicating that > 50% of the female diabetic patients were older than the mean expected maximum age when amputated.

In this study overweight and obese individuals were older than those in normal range; as expected, the indicators of body fat mass status were different according to the classification by BMI (Table 1).

She's older than I expected.

The 63-year-old chief judge of the United States court of appeals for the DC circuit is older than many expected the nominee to be – and more moderate.

As expected, ICU nonsurvivors were older than survivors (68 ± 13 versus 62 ± 14 years, P = 0.035).

The crowd was older than I'd expected, and the ambience felt more like a video-game convention than like a pop concert.