adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a young/middle-aged/elderly couple
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A young couple with a baby have just moved into the house next door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
couple
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She was accompanied by a middle-aged couple , probably her parents, but Jack scarcely glanced at them.
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The middle-aged couple in Crillon had obviously been reading articles like this.
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As the doors slid open he glanced at the middle-aged couple who got out but then stared straight ahead again.
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Neighbors said the house belongs to a middle-aged couple with an adult daughter.
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A middle-aged couple got out and began to unload a motley collection of boxes and bags.
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A middle-aged couple and their teenage daughter were sitting behind it.
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A Volvo estate car was parked outside the gates and a middle-aged couple picnicked on the grass verge.
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Towards the front of the theater is a married middle-aged couple .
lady
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She was a fine upstanding middle-aged lady with sharp eyes and a lucid tongue.
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Edna, a warm-hearted middle-aged lady with a red rose and a walking stick.
man
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It showed a middle-aged man in the clothes of the late seventeenth-century.
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A middle-aged man was bending over one of the beds, sadly digging up clusters of gold and russet dahlias.
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Few could make sense out of the tragedy brought on the community by a balding middle-aged man .
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He and a 12-year-old boy robbed a middle-aged man of £25 at gunpoint in a Leeds park.
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It was practically empty except for two middle-aged men in khaki pants and cotton shirts lounging over a quart of beer.
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SHe tried to imagine the soul of a middle-aged man living in this flesh.
people
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Nobody's thinking that there are middle-aged people , grannies and mums and 20 to 30-year-olds who want to be entertained.
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He proved that it is indeed possible to reverse coronary heart disease in unhealthy middle-aged people .
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It's the silly new middle-aged people who've got to be young who've changed.
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The very existence of all these middle-aged people was inescapable proof of one's own ageing process.
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Yes, this is the commonest cause in younger and middle-aged people .
woman
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I can not believe middle-aged women feel this rage.
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And the middle-aged philanderer, it turns out, is as mythical as the sexless middle-aged woman .
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The middle-aged woman rolled over and buried her face in her blanket, crying so bitterly her shoulders heaved.
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Millions of middle-aged women went to see them, over and over again, and very possibly all their hearts were broken.
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The middle-aged woman mixing the drinks was called Madeline.
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A plump middle-aged woman wearing a white coat greeted them when the doors opened again.
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I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The condition predominantly affects middle-aged or elderly females.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Can an old affair that lasted only a year rekindle as middle-aged passion?
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He and a 12-year-old boy robbed a middle-aged man of £25 at gunpoint in a Leeds park.
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He proved that it is indeed possible to reverse coronary heart disease in unhealthy middle-aged people.
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It is commonplace to see middle-aged or elderly men as newscasters, but not yet women.
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My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut.
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SHe tried to imagine the soul of a middle-aged man living in this flesh.
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Then a third patient, and a fourth and a fifth, all middle-aged men, all soon dead.