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Older in sentence

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And it's even more acute in countries like China, where a process of rapid urbanization, mass migration, has left older people alone in the villages.
So some years ago, wanting to understand this problem, I started to work with a group of about 60 older people in South London, where I live.
An older person might speak differently than a younger person.
She has an older brother who is fourteen, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, named after her dad.
She has an older sister, Domitia II, who is 7 years old.
With dinner concluded, the girls crossed the atrium to bid farewell to their older sister who is carried home in a litter, escorted by some of Dad's bodyguards.
You are watching something, the spin, that is older than dirt, that's older than rocks, that's older than the Earth itself.
You might have an optical mouse that makes these measurements with lights and sensors, but older ones did this with a hard rubber ball and some plastic wheels.
PM: Well, as we grow older, and as we go through different kinds of life's journeys, what do you do to keep your friendships vital and alive?
So the question is why, as they grow older, does that change?
JF: Well, women are the fastest growing demographic in the world, especially older women.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, English uniformitarian geologists, James Hutton and Charles Lyell, studied current, very slow rates of erosion and sedimentation and realized the Earth had to be way older than the biblical guestimate, 6000 years.
The deeper fossil's older, yes?
To your grandparents, parents, or even older siblings, this idea would have sounded strange.
If you know an older left-handed person, chances are they had to learn to write or eat with their right hand.
I had this mad teenage crush on an older man, and the older man in question just happened to be the then Vice President of the United States, Mr. Al Gore.
And when I was older, I would use guitar lessons and theater plays.
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
As we get older, synapses begin to falter and weaken, affecting how easily we can retrieve memories.
A study by the Harvard School of Public Health found that older people with high levels of social integration had a slower rate of memory decline over a six-year period.
The older I got, the more I felt it was harder to keep up with everyone else, and I was angry and frustrated.
That is, until dividing the participants by age group showed that the nonsmokers were significantly older on average, and thus, more likely to die during the trial period, precisely because they were living longer in general.
If it's possible to compare a new drug against an older version, or another existing drug, that's preferable to simply giving someone no treatment at all, especially if they have a serious ailment.
I wanted to tell her that it was all going to get better when she got older, but I couldn't.
I told her, when you get older, your bladder is going to grow bigger, too.
Genes silenced or expressed only at low levels in newborns become prominent in older people, leading to the development of degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's, which accelerate aging.
As we get older, stem cells decrease in number and tend to lose their regenerative potential, affecting tissue renewal and maintenance of our organs original functions.
A close friend, someone much older or much younger, a stranger, a boss.
In addition, older cells don't perform their functions as well as young ones.
When that happens, she's able to produce two different kinds of milk, one for her newborn, and one for her older joey.
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