After finishing his government-imposed farm work, he managed to enter a local university in pursuit of an engineering degree at the ripe age of 30.
It is a tribute to Sir Terence's restless search for innovation and commercial opportunities that he has become the recipient of so much official patronage at the ripe old age of 67.
Elderly men and women would ask me how to cope with fear of dying, asking me even though at the ripe old age of twenty-four I had not ever experienced that feeling.
He developed his skills, through four hours of practising memorisation daily, only after he had passed the ripe old age of 20.
She was a good inch or two taller: a fare-beater at the ripe age of 6.
S. in chemistry from Northwestern, which he earned at the ripe age of 20, and a Ph.
Even at the ripe age of 98, Dr. Height still exuded class, dignity and an air of nobility.
Cockatoos have an average life span of 40 to 70 years, although it is not unheard for some cockatoos to make it to the ripe old age of 80.
K-longs, as befits their name, live to the ripe old age of a hundred-millionth of a second.
It seems quite clear that Ms. Upton is headed for supermodel status at the ripe old age of 20.
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As you're undoubtably aware, Bill Gates is set to retire on June 27th at the ripe old age of 52.
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She died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California on September 10, 2007 at the ripe old age of 90.
At the ripe old age of 40, a Greenpeace protest event today still looks remarkably like it did in the 1970s.
The best fossil and DNA evidence today indicates it was a rare Neanderthal who lived past the ripe old age of 35.
In 1999 actuaries assumed that a British man retiring at 60 would on average live to the ripe old age of 84.
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Allan Bateman played at the ripe old age of 38 and a lot was made of his advancing years in the build-up to the game.
Pushed to get a law degree by his lawyer father, he toiled as a stockbroker, not publishing his first novel until 1863, at the ripe old age of 35.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
While most of Silicon Valley's surviving entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are now doing 12-step programs to break their addiction to Next Big Things, Jurvetson, at the ripe old age of 36, is loudly championing the latest N.
Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Book for Leaders, to prevent others from going through what I went through at the ripe old age of 24.
However, shortly after the first of the new memories went on the market in 1990, Toshiba began pressuring him to accept a "promotion" that, at the ripe old age of 47, would have put him in a job with no subordinates.
We all hope Mr. Jobs enjoys the best of health and lives to a ripe old age.
But the wider prize, an understanding of how to stay healthy into a ripe old age, with all that may bring to medical science, will ultimately be shared by everybody.
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The wasting and weakening of the tissues that accompanies senescence would be a thing of the past, and old age could then truly become ripe.
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The 2001 wine perhaps showed Hillside style at its best at 11 years of age it was still youthful with lots of lush ripe fruit and fine-grain tannins.
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