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Collocations for old age - noun

ADJECTIVE

advanced, extreme
happy
She can look forward to a happy old age.
lonely (esp. BrE)
fears about a lonely old age

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VERB + old age

live to, reach, survive into, survive to
My grandparents survived into advanced old age.
approach
die of

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OLD-AGE + NOUN

pension, pensioner (both BrE)
I'll soon be drawing my old-age pension.

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PREPOSITION

in (your) old age
Loss of hearing often occurs in old age.
He took up golf in his old age.
into old age
She was now well into old age.

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PHRASES

the grand old age of sth, the ripe old age of sth
She lived to the ripe old age of 98.

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