I am too old for this world.

As one grows old, one becomes a light sleeper.

We recommend that mains water have a water-quality test carried out once a year, well water twice a year.

A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is.

A few years ago, on Mother's Day, I gave my stepmother a locket as a present.

On this point it is poles apart from when I set myself on learning English 20 years ago.

"I'm too old to be playing with bugs," said the boy.

"Oh? Then, as I expected, I've been around longer than you. This year I'm 20-mumble years old." "What does that tell me?"

I'll look after my parents when they get old.

My mother has been learning French for several years.

My mother looks young for her age.

My father goes to Sydney twice a year on business.

My father retired from his job several years ago.

My father is not as old as he looks.

My father is 48, but he looks young for his age.

The average nurse is entitled to three weeks' holiday a year.

She is getting on.

She was weary with age.

She looks young for her age.

She was wonderfully alive for her age.