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getting on in years

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getting on in years
becoming old She's getting on in years, but she's healthy.
See also: get, year


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Princess Mary was still the same timid, plain maiden getting on in years, uselessly and joylessly passing the best years of her life in fear and constant suffering.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
"Really, Gilbert, we must be getting on in years," said Anne, with a half-rueful smile, "when children who were six when we thought ourselves grown up are old enough now to have beaux.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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