ADJ
- early, young
- He was sent away to school at an early age
- advanced, great, old
- He was still active even at the advanced age of 87. White hair is a sign of great age. She dreaded old age
- middle
- a pleasant woman in early middle age
- childbearing, pensionable, retirement, school, school-leaving, voting, working
- children of school age
VERB + AGE
- attain, get to, live to, reach
- When you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. She lived to the age of 75
- feel, look
- She was beginning to feel her age (= feel that she was getting old)
- lower, raise
- The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 years
PREP
- at a/the ~
- At your age, I had already started work
- between the ~s
- children between the ages of five and eleven
- by the ~
- He could read by the age of four
- for sb's ~
- He's quite a big boy for his age
- over the ~
- Twelve million people in Great Britain are over retirement age
- under ~
- It is illegal to sell alcohol to children who are under age (= not legally old enough)
- under the ~
- It is illegal to sell alcohol to children under the age of 18
- with ~
- A lot of wines improve with age
- ~ of
- He left school at the age of 18
PHRASES
- the age of consent
- The general age of consent for sexual activity is 16
- sb's own age
- She needs a friend of her own age to play with
- years of age
- He's 20 years of age
ADJ
- another, different
- This exquisite little hotel seemed to belong to a different age
- Elizabethan, Victorian, etc.
- Bronze, Ice, Stone
- computer, modern, nuclear, etc.
- golden
- the golden age of cinema
PREP
- during the ~
- He lived during the Elizabethan age
- in a/the ~
- In an age when few women became politicians, her career was unusual
- through the ~s
- an exhibition of spinning through the ages
- ~ of
- the age of the wireless communication
PHRASES
- in this day and age (= in the period we now live in)
- Why dress so formally in this day and age?
VERB + AGE
- spend, take
- It took an age for us all to get on the boat
PHRASES
- absolutely ages
- I've been sitting here for absolutely ages
- ages ago
- Carlos left ages ago
- for ages
- We had to wait for ages!