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My father is old.

The old cottage had only one bed, so we all took turns sleeping in it.

Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.

Since he is old, this task must be difficult for him.

When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window is a saying as old as it is sad.

Are you seriously thinking about buying that old car?

My twelve year old boy doesn't like to play baseball.

I think it's unlikely that Tom would be interested in buying your old MP3 player.

It's no good making the same old products year after year.

He persuaded his firm to let him go back to his old job.

Blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson would have been 100 years old on May 8th of 2011 if he hadn't died when he was 27 years old.

According to the old man I met yesterday, cockroaches can be eaten and don't taste all that bad.

Seen from a distance, the big rock looks like an old castle.

In America, you are a minor if you are under 18 years old.

Lots of old people are killed in traffic accidents every year.

Former pop stars are just plain old women by the time they're 40.

former politician

Bulgaria is the only country in Europe where a former monarch has been elected prime minister.

The former Argentine currency was Austral. Its symbol was "₳".

Former Olympic fencing champion Pál Schmitt has been elected President of Hungary.

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils.

Is it a good idea to hire former hackers to work as security professionals?

If a coach is on a couch that's on a coach and the latter has a driver, then all is fine. If a coach is on a couch that's on a coach, but the driver drives the former, then the couch is crushed and the coach is dead.

Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.

The newly promoted junior manager, drunk with power, lorded it over his former co-workers.

The former president of a certain association has been arrested on suspicion of breach of trust.

Robert Hansen was arrested on suspicion of having sold off secret information to the former Soviet Union.

He wrote two books - 'The prince' and then 'The King', but I prefer the former. My former wife has found herself another man.

Bill Gates - the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.