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

AGE + NOUN

group, range
limit

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!