Sixteen in example sentence

They raised two or three lanterns to her face, and by their light they distinguished the features of a woman to all appearance of the age of sixteen or a little more, with her hair gathered into a gold and green silk net, and fair as a thousand pearls.

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So my mom abandoned us when I was sixteen years old.

CA: Sixteen years ago, you became employee number seven at SpaceX, and then over the next years, you somehow built a multi-billion-dollar relationship with NASA, despite the fact that SpaceX's first three launches blew up.

Sixteen years later, you'd probably say the opposite.

I think I must have read every single Mills & Boon romance published before I was sixteen.

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